FISA

[tikiera]

Gah.

Obama is in support of the new FISA bill.  IE - it's legal to violate the rights of american citizens if the President says it is.

I will be calling senators this week, but one of them will be for it, and one of them against it, and nothing I do with change the for it's mind.

Comments

[ngrylilasianboy.livejournal.com]

Uh... you realize that the FISA Act has been in existence since 1978, right?

The only reform currently going on within FISA is the restructuring of the Act to provide for change of technology in language, i.e. packet technology as opposed to circuit technology. This is currently being opposed by Telecom providers on the basis of operating costs and change in procedure. As I personally don't sympathize with big business, I feel the reforms are not that big a deal. What is it about the current FISA reform opposing immunity of Telecom operators is that you find objectionable?

[tikiera.livejournal.com]

Nope. The house just passed a bill giving the telecoms immunity - i.e. their illegal searches will be deemed legal if they had presidential sayso. Which isn't really constitutional. Here's the AP article.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hJKgeE0Z-SivATjok-utYBdh9wDwD91DJPS80

Feinstein, the jerk, was on board with it too. I hate her. She's not a liberal. I know she is a Democrat Senator, but she is not a liberal.

(Is still very upset about the chiding letter she received from Feinstein's office that didn't address any of her points, and was very, very condescending).