oldnumberseven

Dear Senator Rockefeller,

I just called your office a few moments ago to express my opinion on FISA, and the Governments ability to spy on the citizenry. The fellow who answered the call did not seem very interested. I hope I did not make a mistake in calling your office in D.C. and wasting this fellow’s time.

The Washington Post quoted you on February 10, 2006:

“If they came with the idea that this is going to stop an investigation on the part of the Senate intelligence committee, they were wrong,” committee Vice Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) told reporters after a closed briefing by two top administration officials. “There were certain kinds of questions which could easily have been answered but weren’t. . . . Where we really wanted hard information that was important to us, that gave us the size and the scope and the reach and the depth” of the program,” he said, “they were not forthcoming.”

My questions are:
How is the investigation going?
Will the senate vote to give the phone companies immunity?
Is giving the phone companies retroactive immunity unconstitutional?
Will the American people have to live the Patriot Act for the rest of our lives?

I am a simple fellow Senator. I enjoy waking, working, and reading a book or two, and having a night cap. I believe, as I was taught in grade school, high school, and by my father, in the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States of America. I hate to see the ideals expressed in those documents thrown by the wayside. It is wrong.

Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter,

sincerely,
oldnumberseven

I will post any answer here.