Craven, sycophantic toadies. That's what the independent, maverick-like, media loved Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee are if what Glenn writes is true. Dr. Observer at Kos has more. I'm sure this will make the Powerline crowd happy.

Update: The always vital Laura Rozen alerts us to this Knight-Ridder piece.

Update 2: I should have read The Agonist Newswire. Justadood had it before I did. And William M. Arkin offers up his share of distate for the Senate Committee.

Update: Senate Panel Blocks Eavesdropping Probe
Walter Pincus | March 8 | Washington, DC

WaPo - The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted along party lines yesterday to reject a Democratic proposal to investigate the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program and instead approved establishing, with White House approval, a seven-member panel to oversee the effort.

Money quote:

The panel's vice chairman, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), took a sharply different view of yesterday's outcome. "The committee is, to put it bluntly, basically under the control of the White House through its chairman," he told reporters.

Laura is too much of a lady to say it, but I will: toadies. Sycophants. Spineless invertebrates.