From Wired:
Lisa Graves, senior legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, called the bill "stunning."
"The administration has taken their illegal conduct in wiretapping Americans without court orders, in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Constitution, and used it as springboard to not only get FISA changed to allow the Terrorist Surveillance Program, but to actually, going forward, not give protections to Americans' privacy rights," Graves said.
Ask me how much I hate this administration and Congress...oh, never mind...
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I just watched the morning news on NBC and they didn't mention this story. It's pathetic! Past my bedtime, I've had all I can stand for one day.
it's absolutely amazing how dedicated the bush administration is to eroding if not actually destroying any semblance of a democratic, free society where people used to enjoy constitutionally-protected civil liberties... they've been fabulously successful at it too, as we've become more and more indoctrinated with fear and the idea that giving up our liberties is the good and right thing to do in order to secure our safety... this will undoubtedly go down as the single most effective propaganda campaign in history and it's not just the u.s. senators who are complicit... it's the american people as well...
prof - cant agree with you more. these guys are brilliant at propaganda. and yep about the american people... 'the good germans'
Tell me what to do, and I'll do it. When you can't rely on advocacy or even elections, you're pretty much screwed. Unless you own General Dynamics, that is, and I've been considering a hostile takeover. I've written a mountain of letters and e-mails, signed petitions and done everything I can think of to make it onto Shrubby's list of dissidents, but so far no improvement, no knock on the door, nothing. The Declaration of Independence says it's up to the citizens to take out a despotic government, but the authors didn't bother saying how that should be done. I don't want to wind up getting tossed in the county lockup. I created a little MSN blog to explore this issue, but so far I haven't put anything interesting in it. Fact is, any citizen can ask the House to commence impeachment proceedings, and you can bet a lot of people have. But nothing happens. Time to declare our independence? I'm free, I'm free!
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