Demand a Spygate Investigation

It looks like the Criminal in Chief is trying to pressure Specter out of holding judiciary committee hearings - we can't let him.

Specter, for one, has promised hearings early in the year--a move, sources tell TIME, that the White House is hoping to head off by convincing the Senator to defer to the Intelligence Committee, whose hearings would be behind closed doors and classified. "They're going to lean on Specter very hard not to hold hearings," says a Republican official. Bush has warned that any public hearings on programs would simply tip off terrorists and invite them to adjust their tactics, and he says, "This is a war."

This is bad news, especially since it seems like the hearings won't even be held until after Alito gets his confirmation hearing. Bass ackwards.

Let the entire Judiciary Committee and your senators hear from you! And if anyone gives you any guff for not being a constituent of the Judiciary Committee's senators, just remind them you can't help the fact that your Senators don't sit on that committee. But it is the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, so it is your, and every other American's, Judiciary Committee.