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« If he's so smart, how come you lost Congress? | Main | Do you find that it's becoming harder and harder to fake your way through the day at your job? » This is more promisingA few weeks ago i complained about the Democrat's passage of a law that relaxes restrictions on the federal government's wiretapping powers. It turns out that the Dems knew the law was bad but felt they had to pass it due to some impending national emergency. They plan to revise the law as soon as possible Pelosi, soon after the initial vote: Tonight, the House passed S. 1927, a bill approved by the Senate yesterday, which is an interim response to the Administration's request for changes in FISA, and which was sought to fill an intelligence gap which is asserted to exist. Many provisions of this legislation are unacceptable, and, although the bill has a six month sunset clause, I do not believe the American people will want to wait that long before corrective action is taken. Reid put out similar comments as well (it's all at the Daily Kos post). While the Bush administration is pushing to make this law permanent (which leads me to believe it had nothing to do with an impending emergency), the Dems are actually planning to get rid of it ASAP. Which goes a long way towards making me not hate them quite so much. In 6 months, i want to hear all about the secret emergency that the White House told Congress about that led to these changes, and i want to hear how wiretapping saved the day. By fnord12 | August 15, 2007, 9:31 AM | Liberal Outrage Commentsi'd like to know what these gaps are that were so onerous they had to give the Bush administration even more power to wiretap considering there are so many bad clauses. not to mention the fact that this administration has no qualms about lying to further their own ambitions. The main gap was that they had to get a warrant in order to tap a foreign to foreign phone call, which by itself is a legitimate complaint. |