Who cares, why would anybody tell something secret to the blabbermouths and backstabbers in congress who are always looking for witch hunts to start. From what I understand these plans were in case if this or that happens and not necessary to inform congress.This article itself is for nothing but to stir up another witch hunt. Meanwhile Frank and Dodd are responsible for the global meltdown and the Slimes couldn't care less.

I hope Bush/Cheney are prosecuted. I doubt they will do jail time and Bush is already voted the worst president in the history of this nation (beating out Buchanan who was worst). A signal must be sent out to future presidents that this is not a dictatorship or monarchy.

Well, John, I think you'd want the Congress to be told about this stuff because they were actually elected, which is a distinction they have that the good folks running the CIA do not have. This is important because if you have an unelected group of folks doing things secretly, and claiming the powers of government to do them, that's pretty much tyranny. Maybe some would be happy with that, but that's not really the way we've ever claimed to do it here in the country.

NSA tells us: "Maybe some would be happy with that, but that's not really the way we've ever claimed to do it here in the country."

And there is the rub. The difference between what we claim to do or claim how we do it versus the actuality (and in large part the necessity) of what has always gone on.

I'm not suggesting that I have a solution to the problem but I do think it important to be honest about the true nature of the outrage: that it was THEIR team who got and held control and not OUR team.

Afterall, we're all decent and honest and appropriate and would never do anything that wasn't in full compliance with all the laws of the land including what we see as their intent. We're the Good Guys we would never abuse our power or authority and usurp the process and legislative oversight.

But when Congress is willing to be a complicit lapdog to an administration and not challenge them on even the petty matters of State... this is what you get.

Where are our voices in all this? Why are we not being represented by the people we elect? We should be rioting in the streets, fighting to keep our rights and civil liberties intact. 1984, anyone?

Our rights were and still are being violated. Unwarranted surveillance, laws that trample our civil rights, all over a terrorist act that the Bush administration did nothing about. God will judge them, and He is a just God. They will get what they deserve.