[privacy] Specter's Uneasy Relationship With White House Is Revealed in a Letter to Cheney

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

An interesting turn of events. Smoke screen? Or legit? Who knows...

Via The New York Times.

[snip]

A senior Republican lawmaker went public on Wednesday about his often tense and complicated relationship with the Bush 
White House in a remarkable display of the strains within the party.

The lawmaker, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, accused Vice President 
Dick Cheney of meddling behind his back in the committee's business, bringing into the open a conflict that has 
simmered for months.

In a letter to Mr. Cheney that the senator released to the news media, Mr. Specter said the vice president had cut him 
out of discussions with all the other Republicans on his own committee about oversight of the administration's 
eavesdropping programs, a subject on which Mr. Specter has often been at odds with the White House.

The trigger for Mr. Specter's anger was a deal made by Mr. Cheney with the other Republicans on the committee to block 
testimony from phone companies that reportedly cooperated in providing call records to the National Security Agency.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/08/washington/08specter.html

- ferg


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