Democrats to Unveil Wiretapping Bill
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 9, 2007
Filed at 12:06 p.m. ET
The ''Responsible Electronic Surveillance That is Overseen, Reviewed and Effective Act of 2007'' -- or RESTORE Act -- would clarify that no court orders are required for the government to conduct surveillance on communications outside the United States even when the surveillance is conducted on U.S. soil, provided the target of the eavesdropping is not known to be a U.S. person.
The bill allows the attorney general and the director of national intelligence to request an ''umbrella warrant'' to conduct surveillance of foreign targets, or groups of targets, for up to one year when there is a possibility that American communications may be intercepted.
The RESTORE Act would expire in December 31, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Government-Spying.html?_r=1&oref=slogin“is not known to be a U.S. person”…so if they never check to see if the person is a U.S. person or not, they don’t have to get a warrant. Besides, they just datamine everybody first and pick out the juicy ones. It is all so ridiculous. They are spying, and they are torturing.
At least this is better
House introduces delayed proposal to amend foreign spying law
House Democrats have refused to submit to Bush administration requests to save telecommunications companies that assisted in a warrantless wiretapping scheme from lawsuits or prosecution.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Proposed_FISA_update_would_not_give_1009.html
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