Wussacrats Complicit in Repugs Rejection of Americans' Right to Privacy
This admission from Republican senators makes the Wussacrats caving and capitulation to and rubber stamping of Bush and Republicans' demands even more reprehensible.
From Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): "The dangerous and unconstitutional FISA bill coming up before the House Friday appears to have support, with Speaker Pelosi describing it as a "balanced bill".
"The bill is far from balanced when it comes to immunity for telecoms, as the bill was written to guarantee dismissal -- a fact the Speaker's Republican colleagues are quite up front about:
Wonder if the spineless Wussacrats who voted to shred the Constitution's Fourth Amendment and cover the telecoms and Bush's posteriors slithered back under their rocks for the weekend to try and molt after their egregious vote?
From Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): "The dangerous and unconstitutional FISA bill coming up before the House Friday appears to have support, with Speaker Pelosi describing it as a "balanced bill".
"The bill is far from balanced when it comes to immunity for telecoms, as the bill was written to guarantee dismissal -- a fact the Speaker's Republican colleagues are quite up front about:
House Minority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Sen. Christopher Bond, R-Mo., said the only result that could occur from a court review of the lawsuits against the companies would be that plaintiffs would be prevented from pursuing the cases. ... "The lawsuits will be dismissed, and we feel comfortable that the standard of evidence that the law requires will be easily met," Blunt said.
"In addition to targeting EFF's lawsuit, these two Missouri legislators would also be throwing the State of Missouri out of court. The Missouri Public Utilities Commission was seeking information to determine if the telecoms violated the privacy of Missouri customers. It appears that protecting the pocketbooks of telecom companies was more important to Blunt and Bond than the privacy of their constituents." (h/t Cursor.org)
And from Speaker of the House Nancy "Impeachment is off the table" Pelosi this idiotic, how stupid does she think the Democratic base and American voters are spin statement via Glenn Greenwald at Salon: "When they saw that we were unified in sending that bill rather than falling for their scare tactics, I think it sent them a message,”.... “So our leverage was increased because of our Democratic unity in both cases.” Pelosi is neither a leader, nor honorable.
And from Speaker of the House Nancy "Impeachment is off the table" Pelosi this idiotic, how stupid does she think the Democratic base and American voters are spin statement via Glenn Greenwald at Salon: "When they saw that we were unified in sending that bill rather than falling for their scare tactics, I think it sent them a message,”.... “So our leverage was increased because of our Democratic unity in both cases.” Pelosi is neither a leader, nor honorable.
Wonder if the spineless Wussacrats who voted to shred the Constitution's Fourth Amendment and cover the telecoms and Bush's posteriors slithered back under their rocks for the weekend to try and molt after their egregious vote?
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