[1] Total Information Awareness.  

Surveillance, data-mining of American citizens without warrant is a violation of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution. To authorize unconstitutional government activity is exactly what is meant by high crimes.

People should lose their jobs, their pensions, their benefits if they are career CIA officers and they went along with a blatantly unconstitutional activity - data-mining and conducting surveillance against US citizens without warrant. By the way, this activity is also expressly prohibited by the terms of creation for the Central Intelligence Agency.

George Tenet? Investigate, indict, prosecute and jail him if he has violated the law.

JULY 13 UPDATE:  The Wall Street Journal reports that the hidden program was targeted assassination of Al Qaeda leaders.   I think if the facts ever become known we will discover that the Vice President operated more like a mafia godfather than an elected leader of a constitutional democracy.

I will wait for the other shoe to drop and indicate that wide-spread surveillance of US citizens has been conducted without warrant.

Who know what we will find out if a prosecutor is appointed?

[2] clipped from [3] www.washingtonpost.com Democrats May Investigate Secret Program House Democrats said yesterday that they expect to launch a formal investigation into a secret CIA program that was not disclosed to Congress for almost eight years, a probe that could entangle senior Bush administration officials who oversaw intelligence issues. “This wasn’t an oversight. There was an order given to not inform Congress,” said [4] Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), chairman of the panel’s oversight and investigations subcommittee. The New York Times, on its Web site, reported yesterday that Panetta has told the committees that Vice President Richard B. Cheney gave the order to keep the information from Congress. The newspaper cited unnamed sources. Cheney’s current spokeswoman did not respond to an e-mail last night seeking comment. [5]