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Your Republican Congress

8 March 2006 - gk - reactions

Spineless Republicans just rubber-stamped warrant-less spying yesterday:

In lieu of fulfilling their pledge to discover the scope of the Administration's warrantless eavesdropping on Americans, Sens. Hagel and Snowe decided instead that they would support legislation which would create a 7-member Subcommittee (4 Republicans and 3 Democrats) to which the Administration is required to report all warrantless eavesdropping activities...
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What the legislation does, on its face, is replace FISA judges with Republican Senators in approving the government's eavesdropping activities. Whereas the country agreed to a framework 30 years ago which allowed the government to eavesdrop on Americans only if the Government persuaded a FISA judge that such eavesdropping was warranted, this proposed legislation eliminates that requirement and allows warrantless eavesdropping as long as 4 Republican Senators agree with the White House that such actions are warranted.

Just remember what happened: the President and the administration broke the law, and then some so-called moderate Republicans started squawking about this and that, then once the White House brought them in line, the Republican Senate decided it was better to giveaway all oversight power to the Executive.