via Senate Panel To Investigate NSA Wiretapping Violations.
WASHINGTON — The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday that the panel would investigate reports that the National Security Agency improperly tapped into the domestic communications of American citizens.
The Justice Department confirmed Wednesday that it had reined in the NSA’s wiretapping activities in the United States after learning that the agency had improperly accessed American phone calls and e-mails while eavesdropping on foreign communications.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-CA
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, said the committee will hold a hearing within a month to look at the NSA’s surveillance activities. “We will make sure we get the facts,” she said.
The first thought that came to me after reading this is “Finally!” Feinstein isn’t calling for a commission to be formed in order to conduct investigations, she’s calling for investigations, period. We already have an organization that is very capapble of investigating suspected illegal activities. It’s called the Department of Justice. You remember the FBI, right. We don’t need a stinking commission.
Department officials said the problems have been corrected, but they declined to say what measures were taken. Justice officials would not detail how the law governing NSA wiretapping was violated or for how long and how many Americans’ communications were compromised.
It’s time that the DOJ comes clean. The DOJ must report the activities of the NSA to Congress. Write letters! Make calls!
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