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Feingold Calls for Bush to Be Censured Over Spying

John Files writes in The New York Times:

A Democratic senator who is widely believed to be considering a run for the White House in 2008 said today that he would seek to censure President Bush because of his domestic eavesdropping program.

The senator, Russell D. Feingold of Wisconsin, said, "What the president did by consciously and intentionally violating the Constitution and laws of this country with this illegal wiretapping has to be answered." He added, "Proper accountability is a censuring of the president, saying, 'Mr. President, acknowledge that you broke the law, return to the law, return to our system of government.' "

Mr. Feingold, who spoke on the ABC News program "This Week," said he planned to introduce legislation on Monday that would censure President Bush and condemn his authorization of the eavesdropping program.

posted by Fergie @ 3/12/2006 03:02:00 PM