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solarbirdSenate Majority Leader Reid's plan to pass the bush as Mr. Bush desires - unlimited warrantless wiretapping with no oversight, and, for that matter, no actual power in the FISA court as the bill allows illegally-collected material to be used in the same manner as legally-collected material, a significant weakening of the current FISA law. Most amendments are going down pretty hard, with none receiving even the 40 votes you'd need to sustain a filibuster.
According to comments here, the final vote on the Senate version will be on Tuesday, and it will pass as Chief Executive Mr. Bush wants.
Then it will be up to the House to do whatever it's going to do. The plan is to come up with a PAA/FISA bill at the last minute so that the House will accept the Senate version as-is. This will end the lawsuits against the illegal spying by telecom agencies on behalf of the Bush administration, by making the actions retroactively legal. This has been the only path to investigation, so that's that then. The Democrats have endorsed everything.
Attorney General Mr. Mukasey, by the way, took the opportunity today to say that no investigation would be launched by the Justice Department on any matter on which the Department had written an opinion (no matter how crazy), and also that if Congress moves forward on contempt charges for ignored subpoenas, he'll refuse to enforce. So that's fun. Law, clearly, is for suckers, and to be written, rewritten, or ignored on the whims of the Chief Executive and their appointees.
So remember, kids: there is no Constitution, there is no law; we do not have a President, and you are not a citizen. The politics of authoritarianism are opaque, and brutal, but at least some people are starting to wake up and call them what they are.
According to comments here, the final vote on the Senate version will be on Tuesday, and it will pass as Chief Executive Mr. Bush wants.
Then it will be up to the House to do whatever it's going to do. The plan is to come up with a PAA/FISA bill at the last minute so that the House will accept the Senate version as-is. This will end the lawsuits against the illegal spying by telecom agencies on behalf of the Bush administration, by making the actions retroactively legal. This has been the only path to investigation, so that's that then. The Democrats have endorsed everything.
Attorney General Mr. Mukasey, by the way, took the opportunity today to say that no investigation would be launched by the Justice Department on any matter on which the Department had written an opinion (no matter how crazy), and also that if Congress moves forward on contempt charges for ignored subpoenas, he'll refuse to enforce. So that's fun. Law, clearly, is for suckers, and to be written, rewritten, or ignored on the whims of the Chief Executive and their appointees.
So remember, kids: there is no Constitution, there is no law; we do not have a President, and you are not a citizen. The politics of authoritarianism are opaque, and brutal, but at least some people are starting to wake up and call them what they are.
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Date: 2008-02-08 07:51 pm (UTC)Do you have an older post you can direct me to?
Also, why does almost no one on our side of the article writing ever bring up that the Bush administration was asking for info on people even *before* 9/11????
Let's just hope whichever dem gets the nomination handily squashes the Republican and things return to semi-normal, surveillance-state wise.
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Date: 2008-02-08 07:57 pm (UTC)Many, going back months. Click on the politics tag, you'll find many on the first page alone.