I’m disappointed and angry that Sen. Olympia Snowe caved in under White House pressure and refused to join those demanding an investigation into warrantless domestic spying, authorized by the Bush administration.

In mid-February she publicly stated, “I think we do have to have judicial review … Whether it’s the FISA approach or not, I think, remains in question, but it can’t go in perpetuity, and it can’t be unfettered warrantless surveillance.”

Contrast that with her recent statement after being taken to the White House woodshed: “I think today, we’re setting a constitutional marker and also a constitutional check on presidential power, because you can’t allow the president to move forward with unfettered fashion.”

The “constitutional marker” Snowe is referring to is a toothless committee within a committee that refuses to stop an illegal spying program and provides political cover for the administration’s blatant trashing of the Constitution.

Come November, all who value liberty and governmental accountability should remember Snowe’s capitulation.

Ed Cundy, Paris