Thursday night, Dick Cheney -- who we learned this week authorized the leak of classified information for political reasons -- told a gathering of conservatives that the White House was going to make domestic spying a political issue in 2006. The meeting where Cheney made that declaration was hosted by David Keene, an opponent of the Bush domestic spying program.
Today, the New York Times is reporting that more Republicans are speaking out against domestic spying:
In interviews over several days, Congressional Republicans have expressed growing doubts about the National Security Agency program to intercept international communications inside the United States without court warrants. A growing number of Republicans say the program appears to violate the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the 1978 law that created a court to oversee such surveillance, and are calling for revamping the FISA law.Will Bush, Cheney and Rove be campaigning against those Republicans this year?
