White House Derails Attempts to End Illegal Wiretapping

P. Rivacy writes "If you recall, last month we discussed Congress's attempts to outlaw the already illegal NSA wiretaps authorized by the President. The White House is now using delaying tactics to derail the passage of that bill. Their tactic is to stall on providing documents related to the President's warrantless wiretapping program, despite requests from the Senate Intelligence Committee that is currently reviewing the proposed legislation. '"Another critical priority for congressional oversight is government wiretapping of Americans, conducted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and, illegally, under the President's warrantless wiretapping program," Senator Russ Feingold said. "When the program was finally placed within the FISA process, an opportunity arose for the Administration and the Congress to move forward, under the law. Unfortunately, the Administration has yet to demonstrate a real interest in doing so."'"

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Re:This is new how?

[Hodar]

We don't live in a Democracy, and we never have. If you knew what a 'Democracy' actually was; I think you'd be horrified. Think "Mob Rule". Want to make women sex slaves? Let's vote. Want Men to have zero rights, and work until they die to support females? Let's vote.

We live in a 'Consitutional Republic'; that is what our founding fathers created. This is the underlying reason why Republicans are called Republicans - because they support the Republic form of government, and Democrats support 'democracy'. Bear in mind, Republicans supported freeing the slaves, pushed desegregation, formed the ACLU, allowed women to vote; and were fought on each item by Democrats. Democrats supported slavery, democrats blocked schools to prevent desegregation efforts, and have opposed equal rights - yet now claim to have invented the idea.

Do some research, look, learn. You may be amazed.