More huffing and puffing by the Republicans

Glenn Greenwald has an excellent, thorough article on the almost mind-boggling attempts by Bill Frist to block hearings by the Senate Intelligence Committee on the NSA eavesdropping program. The executive summary: the SIC is the only committee structured deliberately to ensure non-partisan oversight of the US's intelligence gathering activities, and Bill Frist wants to change that because the Committee will not rubberstamp the Bush Administration's patently illegal wiretapping program.

Traditional media has totally dropped the ball on this. The Congressional Republicans are losing credibility faster than an ex-president at a hooker convention, and regular journalists are either oblivious to this or worse, are deliberately ignoring it. So much for the liberal media.