jstein wrote: > Specter is not the author of the provision that > was snuck into the USA PATRIOT Act... > Well, then Spector is either a liar or a fool who can't even read! And to think we pay people like this to work three days a week. Go figure.
> (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing > Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct > Terrorism Act)--as you know. > As you know, the bottom line is that any administration has the right to remove its appointed prosecutors who serve at the president's pleasure, if they aren't aggressive in pursuing types of criminal activity the president considers significant. You have not presented any evidence that this is against any law. Slate: "But either way, it seems to me that Specter's office has done terrible damage to the very notion of independent and co-equal branches of government in this affair, and has yet to be called to account for it." Full story: 'Specter Detector' By Dahlia Lithwick Slate, Monday, March 5, 2007 http://www.slate.com/id/2161260/pagenum/2
