Mark Kleiman has the scoop on the Office of Professional Responsibility being denied clearance to investigate NSA wiretapping:
Since the program in question was an NSA program, presumably the decision on access would have been made within the NSA. So in effect the NSA has decided that the public interest would not be served by having the means by which its program was approved reviewed by an independent set of investigators.Meanwhile, the Carpetbagger alerts us to a WSJ story (behind the subscriber wall) about Congress juggling new Iraq reconstruction funds, at the request of the White House, in order to get around an Inspector General who has actually been doing his job.
I know it's all wacky and out of the mainstream and unhinged and moonbatty to describe this administration as a 'criminal conspiracy'...but, damn.
[That's all, folks]
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