Reply #41: I like to think of it as very respectfully asking him to do the right thing.

[Tatiana]

I'm more than willing to give him room to maneuver, but a YES vote on this will be tough to swallow.

Criminal liability was something John Dean suggested on Olbermann that sort of made sense to me. The telecoms also violated the civil rights/liberties of those they spied on as they did not have an oath or affirmation of probable cause for their spying. Obviously in such a case the long-term goal would not be to prosecute the telecoms. Maybe they would get a hefty fine that could go to the national treasury. The goal would be to obtain the information (that we would have gotten had the civil lawsuits gone forward) to use against the actual people who requested the illegal spying.

That is just one explanation Dean gave for Obama voting YES on the FISA bill that made some sense to me.

Gracias para sus comentarios :hi: