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Dems’ Effort to Limit Surveillance Bill Is Blocked

Posted on Sep 13, 2006

The November elections can’t come soon enough....

AP:

Senate Republicans blocked Democratic attempts to rein in President Bush’s domestic wiretapping program Wednesday, endorsing a White House-supported bill that would give the controversial surveillance legal status.

Under pressure from the Bush administration for quick action, the full Senate could take up the measure next week.

Progress on a companion bill in the House was not as tidy, in part because GOP leaders and Bush are intensely negotiating restrictions it proposes on the surveillance program. Even as the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Chairman Arlen Specter’s bill to the Senate floor on a party line vote, the same panel in the House abruptly canceled its scheduled markup.

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By truth, September 13, 2006 at 4:38 pm #
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It’s too obvious they are just spying on political opponents.

If they were not just spying on political opponents, we’d see any/all of these things happening:

1. Many actual convictions of terrorists (not just holding people without convicting them)
2. No problem getting court oversight & warrants. (FISA has rubber stamped 99%+ so far. If they won’t bother with that rubber stamp, it’s obvious that they know they won’t get it.)
3. Some congressmen would fight this truly. (The total cave-in of all political opponents means they must have found dirt on Specter, etc, and are doing blackmail to keep them in line. They’ve already blackmailed their own before on election supports/attacks.)

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By John C. Bonser, September 13, 2006 at 1:55 pm #
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It is most unfortunate for all Americans that the majority party finds it so necessary to march in lock step with the administration on this one. Have they no shame? They are now afraid to go against the current president. How will they feel if he or one who follows him decised to tap all their conversations.

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