STATEMENT BY SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY ON DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE
May 11, 2006
Office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Laura Capps/Melissa Wagoner (202) 224-2663
Washington, D.C. -- Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy released the following statement on recent reports of the National Security Agency's collection of tens of millions of Americans' phone records.
"Today's shocking disclosures make it more important than ever for the Republican Congress to end its complicity in the White House cover up of its massive domestic surveillance program. When three major telephone companies are supplying the administration with records of all Americans regardless of any hint of wrongdoing, Congress can't look the other way. The Senate and House Judiciary Committees have a constitutional responsibility to get answers. If the telephone companies and individuals in the administration with knowledge of this abusive surveillance refuse to testify voluntarily, they should be subpoenaed and required to testify under oath.
It's time for the White House to come clean. The American people deserve to know what's being done to them. They deserve a Congress that's not AWOL on basic issues like this."
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