Anonymous Coward User ID: 427592 United States 06/20/2008 04:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Constitutional expert: FISA bill ‘is an evisceration of the Fourth Amendment’ Never appease political bullies, President Bush admonished at the Israeli Knesset,” MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann opened. “Oddly, House Democrats chose to ignore him on the subject of dealing with him.” Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley sees a “very frightening bill” in a proposed “compromise,” currently in the House, that would update the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to effectively grant immunity from civil lawsuits to telecommunications companies that agreed to spy on their customers as part of the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program, starting shortly before the World Trade Center attacks in 2001. If the White House asked a phone company to spy with its assurance that it was legal, the measure says, that’s enough to dismiss a case. [ link to waronyou.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 297520 United States 06/20/2008 04:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Constitutional expert: FISA bill ‘is an evisceration of the Fourth Amendment’ If you are not doing anything wrong, ya got nothing to worry about - It's not a civil liberties issue, it's a don't do anything wrong issue or you will get caught.
I see nothing wrong with trying to bust the bad guy. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 394778 United States 06/20/2008 04:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Constitutional expert: FISA bill ‘is an evisceration of the Fourth Amendment’ If you are not doing anything wrong, ya got nothing to worry about
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 297520Spoken like a Good German. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 447146 United States 06/20/2008 04:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Constitutional expert: FISA bill ‘is an evisceration of the Fourth Amendment’
If you are not doing anything wrong, ya got nothing to worry about - It's not a civil liberties issue, it's a don't do anything wrong issue or you will get caught.
I see nothing wrong with trying to bust the bad guy.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 297520 |