Listen in to the voters
Boston Globe
by staff
11/21/06
Stripping Americans of their Fourth Amendment protection against government intrusion into private communications will always be controversial, but never more so than when it is attempted by a lame-duck Congress after an election that has dislodged the party in power. It is unwise of President Bush to ask Congress to legalize the National Security Agency's warrantless interception of telephone calls between Americans and terrorism suspects overseas. It would be even worse folly for Republicans in Congress to attempt to push through such legislation in the few weeks before Democrats take over. After the election's stinging rebuke to his own leadership, Bush said he would respect the voters' call for bipartisanship. But he has done just the opposite in seeking lame-duck action on the nominations of several judicial candidates whom Democrats had previously rebuffed...
http://tinyurl.com/yjquo4
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
by staff
11/21/06
Stripping Americans of their Fourth Amendment protection against government intrusion into private communications will always be controversial, but never more so than when it is attempted by a lame-duck Congress after an election that has dislodged the party in power. It is unwise of President Bush to ask Congress to legalize the National Security Agency's warrantless interception of telephone calls between Americans and terrorism suspects overseas. It would be even worse folly for Republicans in Congress to attempt to push through such legislation in the few weeks before Democrats take over. After the election's stinging rebuke to his own leadership, Bush said he would respect the voters' call for bipartisanship. But he has done just the opposite in seeking lame-duck action on the nominations of several judicial candidates whom Democrats had previously rebuffed...
http://tinyurl.com/yjquo4
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
rudkla - 22. Nov, 14:59
