"The Time For Slippery Explanations Is Over"
The motivation for the dismissals is still not fully understood. Democrats, including Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, who is leading the inquiry in the Senate, and Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, have said they want to know whether prosecutors were dismissed to thwart public corruption investigations.
"The time for slippery explanations is over," Mrs. Feinstein said Tuesday, after the Senate voted 94 to 2 to repeal the Patriot Act provision. "We don't intend to stop now. We intend to flesh out who did what, when and why."
New York Times | March 20, 2007 10:21 PM