Glenn Greenwald at Salon has a pretty complete wrapup of what’s going on with FISA and PAA, the telecomm immunity issue, and the trashing of our Constitution and Rule of Law. And though the tie to Impeachment isn’t made, it’s pretty obvious from the comments that everyone knows that this is a gravy train no […]
The deep pocket Telecomms and Republican fearmongers seem to be swaying the House to vote a backroom deal on FISA which will allow spying on every single one of us with no warrant. How’s that for trashing the Bill of Rights? And it looks like the Telecomms are getting that Immunity none of us want […]
The House passed a FISA reform bill today that does NOT include Telecomm Retroactive Immunity. It also lets them tell their story in closed door session in Court. More importantly, it refuses to give permission to warrantless or rectroactive warrant wiretapping and puts some serious limits on blanket wiretaps. Glenn Greenwald has wrapped this Wonderful […]
Well, even if Specter voted the right way for the wrong reason, I’m glad he did. The FISA bill was tabled. From Daily Kos earlier today re Specter and FISA; “Specter will vote against cloture because he’s having a hissy fit over his precious amendment not getting due consideration.” Confirmation from Specter’s office via Firedoglake […]
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