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Bill Bans NSA Eavesdropping
An anonymous reader writes "The US house of representatives today passed a bill outlawing illegal domestic wiretapping by the government. Now government agencies are only allowed to access your private communications under terms of FISA. 'As the Senate Report noted, FISA "was designed . . . to curb the practice by which the Executive Branch may conduct warrantless electronic surveillance on its own unilateral determination that national security justifies it." The Bill ends plans by the Bush Administration that would give the NSA the freedom to pry into the lives of ordinary Americans. The ACLU noted that, despite many recent hearings about 'modernization' and 'technology neutrality,' the administration has not publicly provided Congress with a single example of how current FISA standards have either prevented the intelligence community from using new technologies, or proven unworkable for the agents tasked with following them.'"
I predict, if this gets through the Senate, Bush will sign it along with a signing statement noting that he doesn't have to follow the law. That way he can continue violating the law without having to worry about bad press.
The way I see it, he is pretty much not realistically aware of anything that is really going on, but his advisers understand and are putting him in a position where if something goes wrong then he takes the fall and not them. But, they have also been grooming the "duh" defense, with the pres as its foremost spokesperson. Moreover, they dont want actually fascism, because they know that american fascism would not benefit them, they want "crypto-fascism", or psuedo-fascism. Because they have more control then.
PS- yeah, I realize this is completely paranoid, but really, can you blame me after the last 7 years?
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The intellectual dishonesty of the left is almost beyond belief at times. They live in their own little fantasy world where our mortal enemies are sock puppets of the president and others within his administration. They're a Darwin award waiting to happen. The only problem is that the rest of us are equally likely to be victims of their immense folly.
If these people represent the future of our nation then we're already dead.
Muslim community leaders warn of backlash from tomorrow morning's terrorist attack.
Man, you don't even make ONE bit of sense in any of your meandering rambling --- your post ain't even in the category of discourse, dood.
Win what thing? The occupation? How does one win an occupation?
It no longer matters why we went to war. The fact right now, today, this second is that we are there. Now we have to decide if we want to take the easy way out, or the right way.
The right way? Listen, you sociopathic 'tard, two amoral actions don't add up to a moral solution! There exists no valid reason for the foreign invaders of America - and the puppet government they installed - to continue to occupy Iraq and mistreat the Iraqi people. As to the "right way" - such a way obviously escapes your amoral compass.....Do some research as to the behavior of the PMCs over there along with all those transnational corporate pirates operating there....learn something for a change....