February 27, 2008
FISA Tears House (The Hill)
Peter Fenn & Frank Donatelli discuss the issues surrounding the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Archived under: Civil Rights, Homeland Security
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President Bush has taken a position on FISA that is insensitve to creeping accretion of power in the Executive Branch.
Had President Bush a sterling record on security issues his position might be tenable.
However, President Bush has consistently made misjudgements and mistakes in dealing with the Islamic terrorsists.
To accept the President's remarks on security at face value puts us back into the position we were in in the fall of 02 when he seduced us into an optional war which has diverted us from effectively waging the Global War on Terror.
President Bush is leading us down that path again with his uncritical support for the Administration's version of FISA.
The Administration has repeatedly demonstrated its untrustworthiness and incompetence in dealing with security issues.
The President's version of FISA is dangerous in its accretion of power to the Executive and its passage is not justified by the track record of the people supporting it.
Comment by robert chapman — February 28, 2008 @ 7:42 am
Telecoms cut off listening into our conversations because Bush and company didn't pay their phone bills.
It's not America they want to protect nor is it a Civic responsibility used to prevent a terrorist attack.
Telecoms bottom line is Money first and formost. As long as our millions of dollars in no-bid contracts goes to them they will play the game.
Comment by Donaldd — February 28, 2008 @ 2:58 pm