Lame Duck Congress: Will They Finally Stand Up For Americans?

According to the New York Times, President Bush wants to take full advantage of a Republican led Congress, while he still has one, to pass his domestic wiretapping program. The Democrats, who will control the Congress from January, have promised to investigate the program.

For years Mr. Bush hid this program from Congress and, once it was discovered that the administration had authorised wiretaps on American citizens without legal or judicial oversight and approval, now wants Congress to pass legislation that will make such activities legal. This program, along with the secret prisons, torture, and incarceration without trial, are some of the extra-legal programs that Mr. Bush would like to legitimise before the Democrats begin their investigations.

But will the Republican led Congress, in the last days of it's corruption ridden life, pass this bill? Will it allow this president, and future presidents, the right to listen in on the everyday lives of American citizens, cart them off without trial, torture them and hold them incognito forever, and all because the "president", and no one else, has determined that they constitute a threat to national security? Let's hope not.

But don't be surprised if you come home one day to find something like this waiting for you.