White House Spy Docs Show Surveillance Was Illegal, Senator Feingold Charges

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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/white-house-spy.html

White House Spy Docs Show Surveillance Was Illegal, Senator Feingold Charges
By Ryan Singel EmailOctober 18, 2007


Senator Russell Feingold, (D-Wisconsin), who cast the only Senate vote against the Patriot Act and now sits on the Select Intelligence committee, seems to have looked at secret spying documents given by the White House to that committee and found that they do not exonerate the government's secret spying programs or the phone and internet companies that secretly aided them.

The White House seemingly provided the documents in exchange for legislation that would free its telecom partners from being sued by Americans for violating their privacy. The Senate Intelligence Committee is holding a closed meeting on the bill today.
According to a press release:

When the Committee considers this legislation today, I will also fight to reject immunity for anyone alleged to have cooperated with the Administration’s illegal warrantless wiretapping program. The documents made available by the White House for the first time this week only further demonstrate that the program was illegal and that there is no basis for granting retroactive immunity to those who allegedly cooperated. The one silver lining of the flawed FISA bill passed in August was that it had a 6-month expiration date. It would be shameful to miss this opportunity to fix the law.

A spokeswoman for Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, who unsuccessfully tried to subpoena documents about the secret spying programs, says that the White House has not yet promised to share the documents with his committee, but has not yet said no, either.

[L. Coyote]

1. K & R. Is the dam finally breaking? "Bush the Law Breaker" about to be common knowledge!

Attaining critical mass is often an exponetial progression, rather like a leak in a dam. We may be in for some surprises quite soon. Only liars love liars. Once it is obvious to all and accepted in MSM dialogue as a given that these cowboys (my apologies to that genre of poets) are just plain old law breakers and liars, they may need to just resign. And, once the paradigm shifts, it will quickly follow that Florida 2000 was stolen, etc. The very foundations of the Junta will be swept away.

Impeachment may become a mute issue when Bush and Cheney hit that magic 5% support level! :rofl: