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Jun. 11th, 2005 04:34 amGOP Chairman Walks Off, Bringing Patriot Act Hearing to an Abrupt End.
WASHINGTON Jun 10, 2005 — The Republican chairman walked off with the gavel, leaving Democrats shouting into turned-off microphones at a raucous hearing Friday on the Patriot Act.
The House Judiciary Committee hearing, with the two sides accusing each other of being irresponsible and undemocratic, came as President Bush was urging Congress to renew those sections of the post-Sept. 11 counterterrorism law set to expire in September.
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., chairman of the panel, abruptly gaveled the meeting to an end and walked out, followed by other Republicans. Sensenbrenner declared that much of the testimony, which veered into debate over the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, was irrelevant.
There are videos here and here that should probably be viewed in that order. The first shows Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee raising the question of how someone who is factually innocent but labelled as a suspected terrorist ever gets the opportunity to clear himself of that label, and specifically in a case of an immigrant, how does an innocent immigrant get to clear his name when after he is detained and labelled, he is then deported? I found that to be a relevant issue. Sensenbrenner, apparently, did not. The second clip shows his lecture to the witnesses and the walk-out itself.
The clips are in .wmv format; there are other versions (and more commentary) at http://www.dembloggers.com/story/2005/6/10/54149/5115 .
WASHINGTON Jun 10, 2005 — The Republican chairman walked off with the gavel, leaving Democrats shouting into turned-off microphones at a raucous hearing Friday on the Patriot Act.
The House Judiciary Committee hearing, with the two sides accusing each other of being irresponsible and undemocratic, came as President Bush was urging Congress to renew those sections of the post-Sept. 11 counterterrorism law set to expire in September.
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., chairman of the panel, abruptly gaveled the meeting to an end and walked out, followed by other Republicans. Sensenbrenner declared that much of the testimony, which veered into debate over the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, was irrelevant.
There are videos here and here that should probably be viewed in that order. The first shows Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee raising the question of how someone who is factually innocent but labelled as a suspected terrorist ever gets the opportunity to clear himself of that label, and specifically in a case of an immigrant, how does an innocent immigrant get to clear his name when after he is detained and labelled, he is then deported? I found that to be a relevant issue. Sensenbrenner, apparently, did not. The second clip shows his lecture to the witnesses and the walk-out itself.
The clips are in .wmv format; there are other versions (and more commentary) at http://www.dembloggers.com/story/2005/6/10/54149/5115 .
