Omerta

The Bush Crime Syndicate, speaking through its consiglieri, has delivered the message: their footsoldiers are under orders to observe the Mafia code of omerta, the silence about criminal actions that shields gang bosses from legal consequences.

Republicans are fond of braying that the only people who object to all-encompassing government surveillance are those with "something to hide." Their own logic now proves that the Bush administration has something to hide, else why would they be so determined to, well, hide things?

And will the Congress's Constitutional obligations be acted upon, or ignored?