UN-AMERICAN DEMS named here, VOTING FOR FISA IMMUNITY

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Mon Mar-03-08 01:44 PM
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UN-AMERICAN DEMS named here, VOTING FOR FISA IMMUNITY

Edited on Mon Mar-03-08 01:47 PM by kelligesq

The FISA Spying on Americans Bill

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION Urging the House to stand strong unlike the Senate.

And then email the Congress Varmints here www.congress.org listed on the Roll of Dishonour at the bottom something like this:

RE: The FISA BILL
�May I suggest you resign from Congress for participating in Un-American Activity against American Citizens. As a lifelong Democratic voter and supporter, I will campaign against you at every opportunity.

co-sponsored by Greenwald together with FDL

http://action.firedoglake.com/page/petition/RestoreFISA

The Petition states the following:

The FISA bill passed by the Senate is a disgrace. By legalizing warrantless spying on Americans and granting retroactive amnesty to lawbreaking telecoms, the Senate seeks to ensure that the Bush administration's illegal spying programs are never investigated or subjected to the rule of law. The Senate bill is a profound betrayal of the votes of millions of Americans who voted in 2006 to put Democrats in control of Congress in order to increase, not eliminate, checks and oversight on this administration, and to restore the rule of law to our country.

The House's RESTORE Act is an infinitely superior bill. It provides real safeguards on the President's spying powers while providing him with the surveillance powers he needs to protect the country. It enables the issue of the legality of the President's spying programs to be decided where it belongs -- in a court of law. And it preserves the crucial balance that has existed for decades between enabiling necessary surveillance on Americans and ensuring that our political leaders do not abuse that power.

In the wake of the discovery of the Watergate crimes and decades of surveillance abuses, the Congress of the mid-1970s acted on a bipartisan basis to put into place safeguards to ensure that even our highest political officials must adhere to the law and can only exercise eavesdropping powers with real safeguards. The RESTORE Act continues that tradition, while the Senate bill eviscerates it. We urge Democratic House members to stand firm behind the bill they passed and not capitulate once again to the bullying, manipulative demands of the Bush administration for ever-greater unchecked power, as embodied by the warrantless eavesdropping and telecom immunity provisions of the Senate bill.

http://action.firedoglake.com/page/petition/RestoreFISA
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Democratic Roll of DISHONOR:
Original 12 Democrats on the DIShonor Roll, consistently voting for Amnesty & Warrantless Eavesdropping:
Bayh (D-IN)
Carper (D-DE)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Landrieu (D-LA)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)

Additional 6 Democrats voting against the Dodd/Feingold Amendment (S.AMDT.3907) to remove telecom immunity (Failed by 31-67)
Conrad (D-ND)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Webb (D-VA)
Note: Sen. Clinton & Sen. Graham (R-SC) did not show up to vote at 11:03 a.m. on 2/12/08

Additional Democrats voting FOR passage of the Cheney/Rockefeller Bill (S.2248 as Amended) approving both warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty at the final vote (won by 68-29):
Baucus (D-MT)
Casey (D-PA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)

Note: Neither Sen. Obama or Sen. Clinton showed up to vote on final passage at 5:30 p.m. on 2/12/08, nor did Graham (R-SC)

Note: Sen. Feinstein & Sen. Stabenow voted against approving the Dodd/Feingold Amendment to remove telecom immunity but did not vote to approve the final passage of the Cheney/Rockefeller Bill which included warrantless eavesdropping along with amnesty.

*Information obtained at:
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/a_three_sections_with_teasers/votes.htm