And the CINC is not the KING...
Hoekstra's committee is a Congressional and Constitution oversight committee...You may not think someone needs to keep an eye on Bush and Rove, or Clinton or any of the rest of them but I do...
If information 'like this' can't be released, there'd be no public pressure to keep the Kings and Queens within the law...
I can't say whether we need to know 'what' information was kept hidden from the committee, but it's good to know the committee is doing it's job and it's good to know whether this, or any other administration may not be...
I never said he was. I do think Bush is exercising Congressionally authorized activity by fixating on the enemy. No one has ever provided any evidence otherwise.
Instead, we have a NY Slimes and a bunch of panic-mongers who think people's civil rights could possibly maybe perhaps be being violated at some time in the future.
Now I'm not saying Hoekstra is out of line by communicating with the President regarding wartime behaviour. I am saying the LameStream Media and other liberal interests are likely trying once again to create a furor where there is none.
They tried the same thing with John Ashcroft and with Dick Cheney and Karl Rove and with Tom DeLay...and every time they come up way short.
There is no reason to think this is any different. Hoekstra is out there trying to get the LSM to focus on the chemical weapons found in Iraq...so what happens? They find some perceived "rift" between the conservatives. It is so old hat!
Hoekstra's committee is a Congressional and Constitution oversight committee...You may not think someone needs to keep an eye on Bush and Rove, or Clinton or any of the rest of them but I do...
I happen to think the power of the Presidency has been eroded since Watergate and that is a bad thing. I am happy to see we finally have a President who believes in exercising the Constitutional power of the Executive branch. I think culturally we have been treated to an emasculated EB since Nixon resigned in disgrace, and a generation has been imbued with the idea that the President is somehow the servant of the Courts and of Congress.
Of course I'm not for an unaccountable Executive; Congress still has the purse strings and the courts (imo) should have a more limited role in defining the law. Right now we have an administration attempting to re-assert the Executive's independence from the other branches and that is a good thing.
If information 'like this' can't be released, there'd be no public pressure to keep the Kings and Queens within the law...
You're calling them Kings and Queens, not me! :)
I can't say whether we need to know 'what' information was kept hidden from the committee, but it's good to know the committee is doing it's job and it's good to know whether this, or any other administration may not be...
I don't necessarily disagree since I don't know all the details involved. Hoekstra is a good man, and I think if you're dealing with men and women of good character and excellent judgement, then governance will be reliable. Again, I am not against a co-equal branch of government talking internally with another...though Bush as CinC already has the authorization to wage war against the Islamofacists, and in my opinion the Congress needs to butt out or de-fund it.
But that is not why this news came out, and maybe that is why you perceive we disagree. This news came out to be a slap at Bush and to divide the conservatives.
I hope all this makes sense, as it is late and I seem to be getting my words all jumbled.