March 3, 2006

Bill Frist threatens to re-structure the Intelligence Committee in order to block NSA hearings

Glenn Greenwald:

"Frist specifically threatened that if the Committee holds NSA hearings, he will fundamentally change the 30-year-old structure and operation of the Senate Intelligence Committee so as to make it like every other Committee, i.e., controlled and dominated by Republicans to advance and rubber-stamp the White House’s agenda rather than exercise meaningful and nonpartisan oversight....read on"

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