Accountability is an old-fashioned word that the truth jugglers of the Cheney-Bush Administration and important elements of the mainstream media have sought to effectively remove from the English language.

The reason why that word accountability is looked upon with such morbid fear along with savage distaste is that if followed by definition the neocons marching under the Cheney-Bush brigade would have been removed from office long ago.  The sun light of accountability would deliver a piercing arrow of permanent destruction to elements of darkness that have endured through perpetuating patterns of lies.

In the New York Times on Friday, May 25, it was reported that members of the Senate Intelligence Committee had accused the Bush Administration "of ignoring preinvasion warnings from the nation's spy agencies that a war in Iraq could be followed by violence and division and that it could strengthen the hands of Al Qaeda and of Iran."

According to the Democratic chairman of the Committee, Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, "Sadly, the administration's refusal to heed these dire warnings, and worse, to plan for them, has led to tragic consequences for which our nation is paying a terrible price."

At approximately 7:10 EST, Wednesday, January 25, 2005, Senator John McCain (R-AZ), referring to President Bush's domestic spying program, told Matt Lauer in an interview on the Today Show that "It's important to note that members of Congress including Democrats were briefed on this program and there didn't seem to be at least any public outcry until recently."

This is patently FALSE and shamelessly misleading.

First, Democrats were briefed. But, the briefings have been limited to the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate and of the Intelligence Committees, the so-called 'Gang of Eight'.