FCC Declines To Probe Disclosure of Phone Records

An anonymous reader writes "News.com reports that the FCC won't be investigating the phone record disclosures by communications companies under US government pressure. Despite a congressional request for that probe, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin quashed the inquiry based on comments from National Intelligence Director Michael McConnell. 'At issue are reports last year that some big telephone companies allowed the U.S. government access to millions of telephone records for an antiterrorism program. The reports have prompted scrutiny by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Democratic Rep. Edward Markey, the chairman of a key Energy and Commerce subcommittee, asked Martin to investigate. Markey, of Massachusetts, said McConnell's stance was "unsurprising given that this administration has continually thwarted efforts by Congress to shed more light on the surveillance program."'"

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Good. Because what the liberals in Congress do from day to day already weakens the U.S. and that on all sides:

• Economy: taxes raises - At least Kennedy recognized that tax cuts increase Treasury coffers while simultaneously strengthen the economy - we have been at record low unemployment rates.
• War: Where to start...?
  • Forked Tongued: they speak out of both sides of their mouth; condemning the troops' work why 'claiming' to support them - this is only because of the lessons of how the Baby Boomer generation treated the troops during Vietnam - read: Clinton, Kerry, and their ilk
  • Downsizing: in the 1990's Clinton significantly reduced the size of our standing military, which leads me into the following:
  • Enemies?: Is it too unpleasant for them to think about foreign enemies? No, they just see political enemies as the greater threat to what they want most: Power (see below)
  • They Love Defeat: of their political enemies - thus, because President Bush is a non-Democrat, they take on this air of defeatism, ~"the war [in Iraq] is lost" (Harry Reid), ~our troops bomb innocent civilians~ - implying on purpose (Barack Obama), John Murtha declared a small group of Marines guilty of murder before ANY investigation or trial was launched - and now those murder cases have been or are being thrown out of court... all these shenanigans for the sake of discrediting President Bush and any other non-Democrat
  • Double Mindedness: they condemn the war, read: President Bush, or 'President Not-a-Democrat', while refusing to laying it on the line to defund it.
  • "the Democrats in Congress are a bunch of spineless..." - there you go
• Power: they love it and will do any thing to get to it - yes, I believe they, as a whole, will do any thing to get it
• Politics and Party: because they lust after Power they will put their Party first - Bill Clinton was a convicted felon, told lies like Scotter Libby, but the Democrats of the then sitting Senate would not stand up for truth, justice, and morality and follow through on the impeachment that had begun in the House of Representatives
• "the Democrats in Congress are a bunch of spineless...": They won't really fight for what you believe in. You and your values are the last thing on their minds. So, they play to what they believe the middle of the road of America which doesn't believe they way you do (nor I on the whole). So, they continue to fight for the P's: Power and Party via Politics - because playing to the moderates, unlike you and I, is their means of getting into the White House...I'm just glad they won't win.
• Lastly: whatever and whoever isn't Power and Party - you, me, even the ideas they want to push forward are last to them