One nation, under Surveillance
July 12, 2008 by Fran · 2 Comments
I can’t believe the FISA bill to allow & expand illegal warrantless wiretapping passed. Worse, Barack Obama voted YES for it, and he is supposed to be a champion for Civil Rights & upholding the Constitution.
How very disappointing. Even Hillary Clinton voted against it….. but maybe she would have voted differently if her presidential ambitions were still on the table? Who knows. Oregon’s Senator Wyden voted no & Repub. Senator Gordon Smith voted yes. Wyden was quoted as saying “The Senate made a big mistake by shielding telecommunications companies from lawsuits, complaining that they had helped the government spy on Americans. He called the bill “a huge transfer of power to an unaccountable executive.”
The republicans selling the bill said Americans have “nothing to fear” (why does that make me fearful??), “unless you have al Qaeda on your speed dial.” If it makes Bush happy & he will quickly sign it into law, it can’t be good.
I swear, they must be putting something in the drinking water in D.C.
Obama had previously come out against the bill, in fact had long opposed it, but in the end voted for it calling it “an improved but imperfect bill”. McSame was campaigning in Ohio & did not vote, but has consistently supported immunity for wiretapping.
One nation, under Surveillance
Crossposted at Ramblings
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eliot spitzer and his shenanigans. there is no way to even if i wanted to- but this is worth a look from greg palast:
the $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and spitzer charges linked
my thought- we should be focusing on how this info was gathered- was it illegal? warrantless wiretapping? who knows? yes, spitzer should be held accountable if he broke laws- but the fact is- i am skeptical of this government.
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January 14, 2008 by Dusty · 5 Comments
Oh yeah..this will do it..from RawStory:
National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a “walk in the park,” according to an interview published in the New Yorker’s print edition today. Read the PDF here.
Debate on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act “will be a walk in the park compared to this,” McConnell said. “this is going to be a goat rope on the Hill. My prediction is that we’re going to screw around with this until something horrendous happens.”
Read all our emails? As if they haven’t done that already.
McConnell is developing a Cyber-Security Policy, still in the draft stage, which will closely police Internet activity.
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