Cheney puts stop to NSA probe into telephone company records. As long as Republicans are in power we will never get any honesty from this government.

A last-minute deal Tuesday with Vice President Cheney averted a possible confrontation between the Senate Judiciary Committee and U.S. telephone companies about the National Security Agency's database of customer calling records.

The deal was announced by Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the committee chairman, and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. They said Cheney, who plays a key role supervising NSA counterterrorism efforts, promised that the Bush administration would consider legislation proposed by Specter that would place a domestic surveillance program under scrutiny of a special federal court.

In return, Specter agreed to postpone indefinitely asking executives from the nation's telecommunication companies to testify about another program in which the NSA collects records of domestic calls.

Cheney promised to "consider it"? That is what I tell people when I have no intention of doing what they are asking of me.

Does anybody still think this administration is going to do the right thing if nobody is holding their feet to the fire?

Cheney has no intention of giving up control of this program. And the only reason he would block this probe is because he knows that what it would find would destroy the program.

Specter is a spineless pansy ass! Even Jack Cafferty bitch slapped him yesterday on CNN for backing off of this probe.