"Bush Signs Law to Expand Eavesdropping"

[G_j]

WHY ???????????????????
(this didn't have to happen)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR2007080501404_pf.html

Bush Signs Law to Expand Eavesdropping

Associated Press
Monday, August 6, 2007; A04

President Bush signed into law yesterday an expansion of the government's power to eavesdrop on foreign terrorism suspects without warrants.

The law, which updates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, was deemed a priority by Bush and his chief intelligence officials.

"We must remember that our work is not done," Bush said upon signing the bill at Camp David. "This bill is a temporary, narrowly focused statute to deal with the most immediate shortcomings in the law."

The new law, which aims to capture foreign communications that pass through the United States, will expire in six months unless Congress renews it.

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. WHY? Because the gutless, cowardly, spineless Democrats in Congress LET HIM. THEY approved this

piece of shit legislation.:grr:

[KAZ]

6. The "gutless, cowardly, spineless" were 100% Rupuke

and 25% Democratic. So, the vast majority of our party voted against it. But you bitch only about the Democrats. How strange.

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. How starnge??? WE ARE THE FUCKING MAJORITY!!! When will that ever sink into your head?

WE HAD THE VOTES TO STOP THAT BILL AND THEY DIDN'T DO IT!!! THEY ARE AIDING THIS ADMINISTRATION IN THEIR CRIMES whether you want to see that or not. That is a FACT.

[Zensea]

2. Technically, it's not an expansion at all

since it has been going on illegally for around 6 years now ...:evilfrown:
It's an expansion of de jure power but not de facto power.

[Hydra]

3. K&R

Still nothing on the signing statement I'm sure he attached....

[Canuckistanian]

4. What real difference has this made?

We all know there were no impediments before. He's admitted it already.

The only thing changed is that he's been handed immunity from prosecution.

And with his signing statement, he can already ignore whatever legal constraints that were in the bill.

For SIX WHOLE MONTHS, he has a free hand. A lot of damage can be done even in that short time.

[ProSense]

5. "The only thing changed is that he's been handed immunity from prosecution."

Yup!

Can they prosecute him for torture? Oops, Dems gave him that immunity last year.