The House FISA Shenanigans 2/13/2008 7:52:31 PM A House bill that would have extended the Protect America Act, the FISA bill from last August, was defeated by a vote of 229 to 191. Blue Dog Democrats sided with Republicans. But a bill to prolong its debate for 3 more weeks passed by a vote of 206-199. Bush is still saying that he will veto any bill that does not include retroactive immunity for the telecommunication... Read More Topics:   FISA, immunity, telecommunications, illegal wiretapping, elections Posted by  The Wonk View Comments - Post A Comment - Suggest a Topic - Contribute The Senate FISA Bill 2/12/2008 8:54:06 PM After James Risen and Eric Lichtblau exposed the existence of the illegal wiretapping done by telecommunications companies for the Bush administration (see The New York Times), Congress went nuts. Everyone claimed that this wouldn't stand. They were going to do something about it. Well, Lichtblau and Risen's article appeared on June 23, 2006 and now they finally are doing... Read More Topics:   FISA, immunity, telecommunications, illegal wiretapping Posted by  The Wonk View Comments - Post A Comment - Suggest a Topic - Contribute   Links Home Get Blog Widget Recent Posts The New FISA Law. Compromise, Capitulation, or Conspiracy? Taguba, War Crimes & Nancy Pelosi Bush and the Supreme Court Losing the Media; Losing Democracy Joe Lieberman as "The Decider" Bush and Public Policy Does Bush Want War With Venezuela? The Peter Principle Tin Foil Hats The Liberty City Seven Revamping Immigration Policy Passport Peepers Tibet The Baghdad Taj Majal Conservatives and the Economic Crisis The Economy Sucks Will the House Cave In? The True Costs of Our Military Incursions The Bush Library and Institute The Don Siegelman Story To become a blogger on the blog you must subscribe to The Issue Wonk. Please click here to subscribe. Most Read Osama bin Laden-Dead or Alive? Have You Had Enough? Lieberman-Kyl Amendment John "Pat" Philbin The New NIE Report Topics bush (11) FISA (8) telecommunications (6) Clinton (5) torture (4) government news article (3) immunity (3) Iran (3) iraq (3) Obama (3) subscription service (3) us government news (3) warrantless surveillance (3) debt (2) Economy (2) Gonzales (2) health insurance (2) illegal wiretapping (2) Joe Lieberman (2) Krongard (2) McCain (2) Patriot Act (2) Protect America Act (2) Reagan (2) spying (2) War (2) 60 Minutes (1) 9/11 (1) Afghanistan (1) airport security (1) al Qaeda (1) Alberto Gonzales (1) Alvaro Uribe (1) amnesty (1) Andrew Natsios (1) Arlen Specter (1) automatic targeting system (1) average income (1) b-52s (1) Baghdad Iraq embassy (1) Archives 2008 June May April March February January 2007 December November October September August RSS Feed Atom Feed