The FISA Bill Backlash
Not only does the FISA bill legalize the Bush administration’s secret NSA spying program, it also gives the government more power to listen to our phone calls and read our emails. Even more than the Bush administration illegally claimed for itself under its secret program. The ACLU will be challenging this in court, here is an explanation of the lawsuit…
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From Firedoglake…
The ACLU is going to challenge the FISA Amendments Act in court. They’re also going to be taking out a full-page ad in a major national newspaper in protest, and the first 10,000 people to sign on will have their names included.
From Writes Like She Talks…
Here, the implication is that McCain doesn’t really need to vote on the FISA bill given that “he has consistently supported the immunity plan.” Third Party candidate Ralph Nader’s campaign tried to get the McCain campaign to say more than that, but they refused.
Well, guess what? Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy is battling a brain tumor and flew to DC this week to vote on a Medicare bill that in the end didn’t even need his vote. Why did he fly there to vote? Because that’s what elected officials who say they put their country first actually do – they don’t rest on their past actions, no matter how laudatory.
Sigh. Thank you John McCain for another example of empty rhetoric courtesy of the ORP.
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