Pete Hoekstra: CIA Hacking Is Another White House Abuse

by JASmius

Ya know, JASmius Echo Syndrome has grown so ubiquitous, it's almost become a cottage industry - though one that still hasn't reached the pecuniary threshold, alas:

Charges that the CIA hacked into the secured computers of the Senate Intelligence Committee and stole documents on the agency's controversial interrogation program smack of continued abuse by the Obama administration, former House Intelligence Chairman Pete Hoekstra told Newsmax.

"This president has abused the powers of the White House, of the executive branch, taken the executive branch into areas where it has not gone," Hoekstra said in an exclusive interview. "This is one more example. It's an arrogant attitude.

"It's saying: 'We're the executive branch. If we want to spy on Congress, we will spy on Congress. We may use the Justice Department to intimidate Congress.

"I'm glad to see that Congress has the backbone to fight back and to fight back hard," Hoekstra said Tuesday.

Well, maybe.  I suppose it's always possible that the majority party in the Senate simply never truly believed that Dear Leader would ever treat them the same way he does those Republican scum, despite his Infernal Majesty's years-long track record of abysmal congressional relations.  The quickest way to provoke a Democrat, after all, is to challenge their delusion of godhood.

But I'm still not convinced, as Hoekstra appears to be, that Senate Donks truly object to the Regime blatantly spying on them.  After all, when the upper chamber is in GOP hands next year, wouldn't they be all for such "Executive Branch oversight"?  Otherwise, who knows what those crypto-Nazis would get away with?