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"Betrayal": Dem is "furious, double-crossed, misled ... shocked" by Bush [VIDEO]

Bush & GOP put "Politics over national security"
April 18, 2007  |  
 
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Democrat Jay Rockefeller is livid at Bush's "anti-Constitutional, anti-American" interference in a vote on intelligence oversight. Bush, dismissing the Senate's Constitutional oversight role, told Republicans that to prove they were loyal republicans they must vote his way.

According to taraka das:

Under the legislation, Bush would have to tell lawmakers about interrogation tactics at the [secret CIA] prisons, and the government would be required to publicly reveal total spending on intelligence programs, which is estimated to be about $44 billion annually.
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Evan Derkacz is an AlterNet editor. He writes and edits PEEK, the blog of blogs.

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