Comments on: FISA Fight: Senate passes telecom immunity and flips the bird to America

By: Boztopia.com | Jim Webb, John McCain, and the politics of masculine projection

Wed, 28 May 2008 18:04:20 +0000

[...] he completely buckled on passage of the awful FISA overhaul bill in the Senate, and then voted to support immunity for telecoms that illegally spied on Americans. These are two of the biggest fights the netroots have waged, and [...]

By: Scholars and Rogues » Privacy as you know it is dead–but you can bring it back

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:01:55 +0000

[...] lawbreaking is Job #1–it’s almost laughable. Yet this is exactly what our so-called “legislative branch” has been doing, and all our efforts to preserve the rule of law and stymie these spy programs are [...]

By: Scholars and Rogues » Who has access to your personal data? Everyone–except you

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:55:23 +0000

[...] in the fact that telecom companies who have done all they could to enable the Bush regime’s illegal surveillance agenda on Americans and are fighting with each other over who’ll get to police the Internet are also the least [...]

By: Austoon Daily » FISA Fight: Senate passes telecom immunity and flips the bird to America

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:34:01 +0000

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By: My former College Journalism Prof testifies why Hillary should end her campain « Diaretical Throw-Up

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:15:22 +0000

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By: DCBlogs » DC Blogs Noted: Edition of Doubt

DCBlogs » DC Blogs Noted: Edition of Doubt — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:02:58 +0000

[...] is getting any smaller? Between the increasing number of surveillance cameras in DC and some new legislation moving through the Hill, the bloggers at Blackbox and Scholars and Rogues have their [...]

By: Senate Passes Telecom Bill With Immunity Provision « Liberty Street

Senate Passes Telecom Bill With Immunity Provision « Liberty Street — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:01:42 +0000

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By: epppie

epppie — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:49:00 +0000

The point that particularly needs to be made about both Obama and Clinton here is that neither have shown any useful leadership on this issue and it’s folly to think that they will in the White House, when they don’t on the way to it.

By: epppie

epppie — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:38:00 +0000

I don’t think it makes a spit of difference that Obama showed up to vote. If he did, it was purely to shore up his credentials with progressives, which he needs to do, because he’s winning by getting Pubs and independents to cross lines in primaries.
And how is he doing that? By promising exactly the kind of bipartisanship we are seeing here. An Obama America IS an America where the Pubs continue to vote as a block and the Dems continue to fracture, with ever fewer Dems straying from the Republican Golden Path.

I mean, this Fisa bill is a sick, sick joke to begin with. A ‘basket warrant’ is the kind of Orwellian talk we’ve gotten used to. A basket warrant isn’t a warrant at all. It’s the sort of generalized authority the Constitution was written to prevent. But questioning that basic premise, the basket warrant, seems to be off the table completely.

By: www.buzzflash.net

www.buzzflash.net — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:01:45 +0000

FISA Fight: Senate passes telecom immunity and flips the bird to America…

The Senate has voted down amendments that would have blocked immunity from prosecution for telecoms that spied on Americans illegally–and democracy is just a little bit weaker as a result….