Now that democrats finally won an election, Senator Rocky has gotten out of his sick bed to again jangle his tamborine.

“The incoming chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee says he will have a “cleanup agenda” ready when Democrats take power in January.

Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia said the agenda will include reviews of the Bush administration’s warrantless eavesdropping and the CIA’s secret prisons.

Rockefeller said he wants to correct what he called a “lack of oversight” by the committee that gave free rein to the Bush administration in the war on terror.

“It’s not understandable to me, but the majority party sort of didn’t want to do a lot of oversight,” Rockefeller said in an interview aired Thursday on CNN Radio.

Rockefeller said the committee, which oversees U.S. intelligence operations, should be “holding people accountable, and what I hope to do is be aggressive on that.”

The four-term Democrat will be taking over the chairmanship of the committee from Republican Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas.

Rockefeller has criticized Roberts’ handling of the committee’s probe into the faulty intelligence underpinning the administration’s arguments for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

He said he wants the committee to finish that contentious review, which has been delayed since before the 2004 elections.

Rockefeller expressed concern over the warrantless domestic surveillance program to Vice President Dick Cheney soon after the National Security Agency launched the effort following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

He said he plans to resist allowing the NSA to continue its eavesdropping program, which the Bush administration calls a “terrorist surveillance program.”

Go fer it Rocky. I know it much seem frustrating that this traitor is allowed to spout and spew his agenda for tearing down America’s defenses, but that bravado may be short lived.

As I mentioned before, the investigation into Rocky and Dubin begun in 2005, as well as two other investigations are still ongoing and close to completion. Don’t take the lack of action as no action being done. Again, these things do take time and because they will deal with people in high positions the results have to be tight.

Additionally, there are plans by some Republicans to raise the issue of his admission of pre-warning our ememies of our invasion of Iraq in 2002, as well as the aforementioned investigations, and subsequently ask that he step aside or resign from the SSIC.

Any violation of the handling of classified information would be reason for removal, indeed even the accusation that calls in a question of concern is enough for him to temporally step aside. With three investigations with his name on them and an admission of outright treason, I think a call for his ouster is appropriate.