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Will the House Cave In? |
| 3/3/2008 10:28:28 AM |
According to the New York Times, the House is getting ready to pass a FISA bill that will give the telecommunications companies the retroactive immunity that Bush has been seeking. Yes, they're caving in. Representative Silvestre Reyes (D, TX), chair of the House Intelligence Committee which is drafting the new law, said Sunday that the committee had been talking to the... Read More |
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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 |
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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 |
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Warrantless Surveillance |
| 11/8/2007 9:54:41 AM |
| Here's another good reason not to provide AT&T with immunity from lawsuits. We all know that they cooperated with the NSA to collect data on its customers. (See The Weekly Wonk, Warrantless Surveillance, 5/13/06) Now Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician turned whistleblower, says that a copy "of all internet traffic passing over AT&T lines was copied into a... Read More |
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Protect America Act Extension |
| 10/9/2007 7:59:39 AM |
 It looks like Congress is going to extend the new wiretapping law, the Protect America Act, that they passed in August and which will expire early in 2008. Even though they said they were pressured to expand Bush's powers and vowed to roll them back, it looks like they're giving in to the fear that they'll look "soft on terrorism" and are going to... Read More
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Protect America Act of 2007 |
| 8/30/2007 5:14:37 PM |
On August 5, 2007 President Bush signed the Protect America Act of 2007, which provided sweeping new spying powers to the Executive Branch as an up-date to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Called the Protect America Act of 2007, it allows the government to eavesdrop on international telephone calls and e-mail messages of American... Read More |
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