Dems regroup to overhaul FISA

[rodeodance]

Source: the hill



Dems regroup to overhaul FISA

By Susan Crabtree

September 06, 2007
The Bush administration is taking a beating for failing to explain the changes to the federal wiretapping law that Congress passed quickly before it left town for its August recess.

Congressional Democrats didn’t waste any time before revisiting the temporary fix to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that they agreed to pass amid administration claims in July and early August that terrorist chatter was heating up, just as it did before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The new law would allow the government to monitor suspects in national security investigations without first seeking court approval in cases when one party is reasonably believed to be abroad, a change that has alarmed privacy and civil liberties defenders. The new law expires in six months, and Democrats have made an extension beyond that a top priority, but on their terms.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) held a hearing on the FISA changes Wednesday in part as a response to a request from Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who said the new changes are “unacceptable” and warrant “corrective action.”.........


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[endarkenment]

1. bullshit

wait, no, it's

TOTAL BULLSHIT

[villager]

2. "This barn door will soon be *shut*, and if we ever have horses in it again, they won't get out!"

"We swear!"

[Kagemusha]

3. Totally untrue that the Bush admin has taken a beating.

Congressional Democrats are the ones that took a beating. No one laid a hand on the Bush admin, it got everything it demanded, and now it's demanding more that it couldn't get away with at the time.

[Fovea]

4. The Bush administration *has* taken a licking...

They just had to go into the congressional wash room, and start tapping their foot in a way that the Dem centrists would respond to...

[rocktivity]

5. What's there to overhaul? Just make warrants mandatory again!

:think:
rocknation

[Fovea]

6. I agree, fisa was not much of a wall

more like from the pavement to the curb.

[AllyCat]

7. Hmmm...just maybe they should have thought of that BEFORE they voted.

Just sayin'