Senate Judiciary APPROVES Specter's FLAWED Wiretap Bill

[kpete]

Senate committee acts on NSA wiretapping bills. The Senate Judiciary Committee today approved Sen. Arlen Specter’s (R-PA) dangerously flawed bill that would abolish all limits on the president’s eavesdropping powers. But the committee also approved two competing bills, including one strong bill by Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-PA) that would bring the entire NSA program before the FISA court. Glenn Greenwald sorts out the details.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/13/senate-committee-acts-on-nsa-wiretapping-bills/


UPDATE II: As I've documented many times -- the most recent such documentation here -- the notion that Democratic opposition to warrantless eavesdropping will "help Republicans" is transparently false Rovian bravado that has been empirically disproven time and again. As I document here, the opposite is true -- most Americans oppose warrantless eavesdropping, and the throngs of Americans who have abandoned the President are not going to stream back to Republicans based on a non-existent desire to see the President have the power to eavesdrop on Americans with no oversight.

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/09/specter-bill-much-closer-to-being.html

[texpatriot2004]

1. GOP Culture of Corruption and the Cover-Up Congress strike

again

[texpatriot2004]

2. kick nm

[annabanana]

3. Time to start the old "(202) 224"

Our congress critters should know we don't like warrantless wiretapping or torture any better now than we did before.

Oh Yeah. . We STILL don't want the UAE to operate our ports..