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Letting Bush spy on Americans
is unwarranted
Ari Melber
Politico
Thursday November 8, 2007
Under Republican control, the last Congress largely ignored
the Bush administration’s controversial warrantless domestic
spying program.
Republicans failed to provide thorough oversight or pass a single
surveillance bill.
Under Democratic control, Congress is now doing even worse, abdicating
oversight and actively undermining accountability for violations
of the nation’s surveillance laws.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is debating whether to extend
“temporary” legislation, passed in August, to enable
the government to spy on Americans without warrants.
The “FISA Amendments Act” would gut the oversight
system established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
of 1978, which subjected domestic spying to review by a special
intelligence court.
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That was the court President Bush defied by ordering warrantless
surveillance.
One of the court’s judges, James Robertson, resigned in
protest, while the attorney general, his deputy and the FBI director
all threatened to resign.
A federal court also found the warrantless surveillance illegal
last year.
Full
article here.
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