As if the FISA bill wan't enough proof that the Bush regime has turned this nation into a totalitarian surveillance state by trampling on the Constitution with the help of a spineless Congressional leadership, the latest move by the Bushites definitely would shred the rule of law and the Constitution into little pieces.

 

The framers of the Constitution must be turning over in their graves at the latest assault on the liberties enshrined in that document.

 

From the NYTmes:  "A Justice Department plan would loosen restrictions on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to allow agents to open a national security or criminal investigation against someone without any clear basis for suspicion, Democratic lawmakers briefed on the details said Wednesday.

"The plan, which could be made public next month, has already generated intense interest and speculation. Little is known about its precise language, but civil liberties advocates say they fear it could give the government even broader license to open terrorism investigations.

"Congressional staff members got a glimpse of some of the details in closed briefings this month, and four Democratic senators told Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey in a letter on Wednesday that they were troubled by what they heard.

"The senators said the new guidelines would allow the F.B.I. to open an investigation of an American, conduct surveillance, pry into private records and take other investigative steps "without any basis for suspicion." The plan "might permit an innocent American to be subjected to such intrusive surveillance based in part on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, or on protected First Amendment activities," the letter said. It was signed by Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, Richard J. Durbin of Illinois,Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.

"Michael German, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union and a former F.B.I. agent, said the plan appeared to open the door still further to the use of data-mining profiles in tracking terrorism.

" 'This seems to be based on the idea that the government can take a bunch of data and create a profile that can be used to identify future bad guys," he said. "But that has not been demonstrated to be true anywhere else.' "

And the Democratic senators write to Mukasey becaause they are trouble by what they heard.  No clear basis for suspicion to spy and open investigation!  Troubled?  What an understatement.

First, why even write to Mukasey?  He's an integral part of the problem....a Bushite loyalist who covers Bush's posterior even when it comes to torture.  Mukasey should be impeached along with Bush and Cheney.

Since you have franking privileges, send out an alarm to all of your consitutents alerting them to this Owellian assault on their liberties by the Bush regime and its Justice Department head flunky who's pushing this "plan" to again defy the Constitution.  Let your constituents demand impeachment of Bush, Cheney and Mukasey and the firing of Robert Mueller, the head of the FBI.  Light a fire under Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's rear!

You people have been in the Senate elite 100 club too long. Get a spine.  The Constitution and this country is being destroyed and all you can say is you're troubled, troubled!!!! And all you can come up with is a letter to Mukasey!  Are you for real!!