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February 15, 2008
High Noon at Midnight Friday
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
FISA: High Noon at Midnight Friday
by Andy McCarthy
"In today's article, I catalogue some of the problems with the Senate bill which would overhaul FISA — while explaining that the bill absolutely must be passed by the House or our foreign intelligence collection is going to collapse. It would be unconscionable for Democrats to allow that to happen while our nation confronts an enemy hell-bent on reprising 9/11 and while we have 200,000 men and women in uniform relying on the continuing flow of information from our intelligence services.Well it looks like the unconscionable is about to occur. I am hearing from several sources that the House is planning to recess on Friday without taking up the Senate bill. That would mean the lapse of our surveillance authority at midnight.
This is a game of roulette with our national security, spearheaded by the Democratic leadership in the House, which is following the lead of the party's two presidential contenders, Sens. Obama and Clinton. Both of them voted against the emergency authorization last summer, and Obama voted against the Senate bill on Tuesday (Clinton did not bother to vote). Make no mistake. The MoveOn.org crowd is calling the shots on that side of the aisle.
President Bush has to keep pounding this, as does Sen. McCain. This is not politics, folks. For grown-ups, this is life and death."
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Wild Thing's comment........
So let's see within the next 48 hours or the current stopgap measure, the Protect America Act, will expire. (The Senate bill is bipartisan)
If that happens, the current statutory authority for the intelligence community to monitor foreign terrorists overseas will end. The CIA and NSA, under a secret FISA court ruling Americans have not been permitted to review, would be required to seek probable-cause judicial warrants to surveil terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere around the globe. That impossible burden — bringing tens of thousands of enemy communications under FISA’s arduous legal procedures, all for the benefit of alien enemies who have no right to privacy protection under American law — would shut down intelligence collection.
Obama voted against it and Mrs. Clinton didn’t even show up!
Posted by Wild Thing at February 15, 2008 12:55 AM
Comments
This is all Nazi Peeloser's fault. She keeps holding it back so it WILL expire.
Hey, if someone is calling Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria or one of those terrorist places, I wanna know about it. We aren't listening in on ordinary Americans. We're listening to those we KNOW are linked to known terrorists.
I hope to God that two years from now, when we vote for the house and senate, that Nazi and her cohorts go down in flames and us republicans take both again!
Posted by: Lynn at February 15, 2008 05:00 AM
Crap! Maddening!! The leadership and much of the membership of the terrorists' fifth column, also known as the US Congress, is doing what they can to get America defeated in this war.
Actually, we may now be safer from another terrorist attack. The enemy can see that our own leadership is working dilegently to lose the war. Why should the enemy chance riling up an armed populace when the victory is being handed to them through our own legislation. They can take us over intact.
Posted by: TomR at February 15, 2008 08:43 AM
Good point Tom. The Democrats are doing their work for them. And, if they get a Muslim in the White House, it will even be easier.
Posted by: BobF at February 15, 2008 08:55 AM
Lynn I pray that happens. That these people can get voted right out of office and that we have some conservatives to replace them.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 15, 2008 07:05 PM
Tom, yes they don't have top lift a finger just let our own legislation do it for them.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 15, 2008 07:08 PM
Bob, yes that scares the heck out of me. We already have Keith Ellison ( muslim) in office and next it very well might be Obama.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 15, 2008 07:10 PM
