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Politics & Legal > Senate Passes Fisa Bill
 

Senate Passes Fisa Bill


Sixty-Nine Senators Betray Liberty

Pamela Hess, HuffPost
Bowing to President Bush's demands, the Senate sent the White House a bill
Wednesday overhauling bitterly disputed rules on secret government
eavesdropping and shielding telecommunications companies from lawsuits
complaining they helped the U.S.
spy on Americans.
The relatively one-sided vote, 69-28, came only after a lengthy and heated
debate that pitted privacy and civil liberties concerns against the desire to
prevent terrorist attacks. It ended almost a year of wrangling over
surveillance rules and the president's warrantless wiretapping program that was
initiated after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The House passed the same bill last month, and Bush said he would sign it
soon.
Opponents assailed the eavesdropping program, asserting that it imperiled
citizens' rights of privacy from government intrusion. But Bush said the
legislation protects those rights as well as Americans' security.
"This bill will help our intelligence professionals learn who the
terrorists are talking to, what they're saying and what they're planing,"
he said in a brief White House appearance after the Senate vote.
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Sen. Barack Obama voted for the compromise while Sen. Hillary Clinton voted
against it
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posted on July 9, 2008 8:03 PM ()

Comments:

Letsgetsmart on HuffPost wrote: Everyone howled when Nixon and his crew pulled their little break in and spy act. The majority of the people in congress from both parties agreed that this was a crime against every thing this country stood for. The media back then was the reason this came to light and the congress had to act. Now here we are today with a list of constitutional, criminal and civil violations that is way to long to place here and yet things just go on like business as usual. Have we gotten so saturated that red flags don't go up any more? Do we not have checks and balances any more? Are there so few decent elected people that things like the fisa vote today do not outrage our elected people any more? The media is at least as big a problem as any thing else and here today they got a pat on the back for a job well done by both parties in congress. In stead of being our watch dogs they are complicit in breaking the law and get congressional blessing. I don't care who they are or what party they are from, the congress have a lot of nerve presenting themselves as proud honest Americans. The honorable this or my trusted friend that, makes me gag every time I hear them say it.
comment by bumpedoff on July 9, 2008 8:49 PM ()
The Bush wire tapping apparatus has been compromised. Anyone can bug any American. Let us hope the present FISA bill will provide evidence against the traitors in our government. If the US does not prosecute them, other nations can. If a Senator makes an appointment with the CIA pedophile brothel in Bethesda, the text of the call should be posted on the Internet.
comment by bumpedoff on July 9, 2008 8:33 PM ()

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