Is Harry Reid nominated for an Oscar? If not he should be.
Check out this picture of Harry Reid in the Times today standing before reporters after the FISA votes yesterday. He appears to be so despondent and contemplative, especially considering this caption: “Holding all the Democrats together on this,” Senator Harry Reid said of the [...]
Cheney gave America the Unitary Executive. Now with the passage of amnesty in FISA the Unitary Citizen emerges.
In spite of the heavy FISA amnesty losses suffered today, Chris Dodd intends to launch a counterattack to the extent possible, albeit against virtually all odds.
There is nothing that gives more pleasure to the neocons and Republicans in Congress when they wrongly characterize and slander those who oppose them as terrorists, terrorist-sympathizers, and accuse them of not-supporting the troops. They promote themselves as the true patriots and oftentimes to the level of deity. We know that’s a bunch of [...]
What is Reid doing? (See update below.)
Reuters:
U.S. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Monday abruptly postponed until next month consideration of a measure to give immunity to telephone companies that participated in President George W. Bush’s warrantless domestic spying program.
“Everyone feels it would be to the best interest of the Senate that we take [...]
Presidential candidate Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) stood tall today in his filibuster effort, while many of his Democratic colleagues, most notably, Harry Reid, Jay Rockefeller, and Dianne Feinstein, were unimpressed with his patriotic position. Instead they fell in lockstep with George Bush, Dick Cheney, Kip “Surf’s Up!” Bond, and Mitch McConnell, as the Senate voted [...]
Here is part of Chris Dodd’s speech in the FISA debate. It is not a perfector an official transcript and should not be used as such. I was typing fast and have surely made a few errors. In some cases I summarized what he was saying and in other places omtted some of his [...]
The Senate has begun debate on Senate Intelligence Committee’s bill to amend FISA. The Intelligence Committee’s bill, unlike the amendment proposed by the House Intelligence Committee, provides amnesty to the telecommunications companies and the Bush administration for their illegal wiretapping activities that began in 2001.
The bill being debated, S. 2248, is without doubt one of [...]
Joe Klein
(Update below)
Joe Klein and Time magazine published an article last week on the pending FISA legislation that has ultimately turned out to be one of the most irresponsible, deceitful, inaccurate, and despicable cases of so-called reporting in generations. This is must reading for anybody, but if you are one of the [...]
In a 277 - 189 vote yesterday, the House passed its version of the RESTORE ACT (H.R. 3773: Responsible Electronic Surveillance That is Overseen, Reviewed, and Effective Act of 2007). The proposed amendment is intended to address the Bush administration’s claims that the prevailing statute governing intelligence gathering, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 [...]
After a year of stonewalling and multiple subpoenas, The White House has said it will allow Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter, Chairman and Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee respectively, access to the documents related to the Bush administration’s spying programs.
The Hill:
The White House will allow leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee to access [...]
As I mentioned earlier, we have been heads-down all day researching political donations to Sen. Jay Rockefeller. Based on the Federal Election Commission’s records, Rockefeller received substantially more money in 2007 from the telecom industry than in 2006 as was reported here last week and in the Times today. However, I have a problem [...]
I have spent most of time today looking into the telecom companies’ campaign contributions to Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. I touched briefly on this a few days ago, and the numbers were high then. Well they get substantially higher.
The New York Times ran an article today about Rockefeller’s contributions [...]
(Update below)
George Bush desperately wants Congress to give him unconditional warrantless surveillance with full immunity (retroactive and future) and he knows Congress will give it to him if he engages the fear-mongering propaganda machine, which has already started and the media continues to gladly serve as his stenographer and water carrier. However, the good [...]
(update below)
These are the bullet points of Senate Intelligence Committee’s version of the RESTORE Act, which the distinguished Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Kit Bond (R-MO) so generously provided on the Committee’s Web site.
Authority for the intelligence community to conduct the intelligence collection needed to protect our country.
Strong FISA Court review and [...]
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