FISA
Posted By Sika on February 15, 2008
I wanted to post this Wednesday but the vagaries of the internet prevented me from doing so.
Please read the link below and then use the ACLU script (or your own if it’s better) to contact all the representatives you think might listen, should listen, need to listen.
Honestly, I think this is one of the most important political/human issues of our time and it is not being followed with the seriousness it should. Raise a fuss and make some noise, for me, please.
Some highlights from here:
The Senate today– led by Jay Rockefeller, enabled by Harry Reid, and with the active support of at least 12 (and probably more) Democrats, in conjunction with an as-always lockstep GOP caucus– will vote to legalize warrantless spying on the telephone calls and emails of Americans, and will also provide full retroactive amnesty to lawbreaking telecoms, thus forever putting an end to any efforts to investigate and obtain a judicial ruling regarding the Bush administration’s years-long illegal spying programs aimed at Americans. The long, hard efforts by AT&T, Verizon and their all-star, bipartisan cast of lobbyists to grease the wheels of the Senate– led by former Bush 41 Attorney General William Barr and former Clinton Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick– are about to pay huge dividends, as such noble efforts invariably do with our political establishment.
…Chris Dodd went to the Senate floor last night and gave another eloquent and impassioned speech, warning of the consequences for our country from telecom amnesty. He specifically focused on the permanently and comprehensively suppressive effect it will have on efforts to investigate what the Bush administration did in illegally spying on Americans.
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