Het feit dat de Bush-regering een loopje neemt met de parlementaire democratie stuit op steeds meer verzet van de commerciele Amerikaanse massamedia, die de belangen van de grote concerns behartigen. Na jarenlang als spreekbuis van de Bush-regering te hebben gefunctioneerd is nu ook voor de New York Times de maat vol. In een commentaar schrijft de redactie: 'Doing the President's Dirty Work. Is there any aspect of President Bush's miserable record on intelligence that Senator Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is not willing to excuse and help to cover up? For more than a year, Mr. Roberts has been dragging out an investigation into why Mr. Bush presented old, dubious and just plain wrong intelligence on Iraq as solid new proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was in league with Al Qaeda. It was supposed to start after the 2004 election, but Mr. Roberts was letting it die of neglect until the Democrats protested by forcing the Senate into an unusual closed session last November. Now Mr. Roberts is trying to stop an investigation into Mr. Bush's decision to allow the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans without getting the warrants required by a 27-year-old federal law enacted to stop that sort of abuse. Mr. Roberts had promised to hold a committee vote yesterday on whether to investigate. But he canceled the vote, and then made two astonishing announcements. He said he was working with the White House on amending the 1978 law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, to permit warrantless spying. And then he suggested that such a change would eliminate the need for an inquiry. Stifling his own committee without even bothering to get the facts is outrageous.' Lees verder:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/17/opinion/17fri1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Of: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021706M.shtml
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