Good news, at least for now! The House adjourned without surrendering to White House pressure (for a change) to extend the so-called “Protect America Act.”
Kennedy and Kerry opposed amnesty to the telecoms that went along with the White House’s illegal warrantless wiretaps earlier this week, and it’s great to see this unconstitutional bill stopped in its tracks.
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that wasn’t so hard was it? You can all come out now from under your desks. The wicked GOP is just a lot of scary noise.
I couldn’t hear the audio, but I saw Bush on TV today laying on the pressure to get this thing passed, and they ignored him.
Proud Democrats are “standing up” to the evil Republicans when just a week ago they were licking the Republican jackboots. Of course, the Republican administration has less than a year in power and they can still use FISA to get around privacy concerns and His Majesty use a presidential pardon for the telcoms and contempt citations.
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p>Business as usual with some sound and fury thrown in.
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p>“See, we’re different, honest we are! We care, we feel your pain, really. Remember this on election day!”
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Did Tierney do the right thing?
If you mean FISA, that is. They just ended without any action on it, so the PAA will expire as expected tomorrow. On contempt, the roll is here, and it looks like Tierney voted aye.
They better come up with something, as pretty much every piece of communication across the world might be touching a U.S. router, even if its ex-U.S. Hopefully FISA can keep up..
The amendment has to do with immunity for the telecoms not with expanding capability.