Sen. Chris Dodd speaks out against Repubican, Mitch McConnell’s obstruction of amendments to the new FISA bill which would grant immunity to the telecoms

More at www.therealnews.com Republican Bruce Fein on the failure of both parties to stop the government from spying on its citizens Wednesday January 30th, 2008 Bruce Fein is the founder of the American Freedom Agenda, that works to restore constitutional checks and balances. He served in the US Justice Department under President Reagan and has been an adjunct scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, a resident scholar at the Heritage Foundation, a lecturer at the Brookings Institute, and an adjunct professor at George Washington University.

Here’s an excerpt: In a Presidency of hypocrisy, an Administration of exploitation, a labyrinth of leadership, in which every vital fact is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma hidden under a claim of executive privilege supervised by an idiot, this one is surprisingly easy. President Bush has put, protecting the Telecom giants from the laws…ahead of protecting you from the terrorists. He has demanded an extension of the FISA law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but only an extension that includes retroactive immunity for the Telecoms who helped him spy on us. Congress has given him, and he has today signed, a fifteen day extension, which simply kicks the time bomb down the field, and has changed nothing of his insipid rhetoric, in which he portrays the Democrats as ‘soft on terror’ and getting in the way of his Superhuman efforts to protect the nation… when, in fact, and with bitter irony, if anybody is ‘soft on terror’ here it is Mr. Bush.

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