Senate Dems on Bush spying: 'Keep breaking law'

[disrupter]

The Senate Democrats caved to Whitehouse pressure that legalizes Bush's breaking of FISA law.

Senate Passes Bush Spy Bill
Lara Jakes Jordan, 3 Aug 07

WASHINGTON — The Senate, in a high-stakes showdown over national security, voted late Friday to temporarily give President Bush expanded authority to eavesdrop on suspected foreign terrorists without court warrants.

The House, meanwhile, rejected a Democratic version of the bill.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070803/terrorism-surveillance/

[Linkster]

More importantly - since most of the bill in classified and there is no way of seeing what is in most of it - the little tidbits we are getting from people familiar with the text of the bill is that the email and phone records listening/looking going in and out of the US (doesnt have to be terrorist related) can all be looked at now without a FISA warrant - this includes all US citizens emails and phone calls

[disrupter]

i guess we aren't to be trusted when it comes to our own national security concerns.

Of the people
by the people
for the people?

Not where Big Nanny Government is concerned.

Btw that is the same giant fool government that got us hamstrung in Iraq, busily creating terrorists rather than reducing them.

Big CROOKED Nanny Government btw.

People created this government & now that it has gone awry,
people can tear it to shreds piece by piece.

[kres24GT]

i guess we aren't to be trusted when it comes to our own national security concerns.

Of the people
by the people
for the people?

Not where Big Nanny Government is concerned.

Btw that is the same giant fool government that got us hamstrung in Iraq, busily creating terrorists rather than reducing them.

Big CROOKED Nanny Government btw.

People created this government & now that it has gone awry,
people can tear it to shreds piece by piece.


People will always sacrifice freedom for safety and comfort. Social security, welfare, socialized health care, patriot act, wire taps, drug war, etc.

[moonman]

As a Keynesian and a Catholic, I have no trouble or problem with taxes. My issues are the spending priorities.

It cracks me up to read people slam the nanny state without comment on the corporate welfare bums. Corporate welfare dwarfs the nanny state.

As for the Dems caving in to Bush on domestic surveilance, the issue is power not rights. The Dems crave it as badly as do the Republicans.