FISA negotiators near deal

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Source: The Hill

By Manu Raju
06/13/08 04:58 PM ET

House and Senate negotiators are on the verge of striking an accord on a contentious overhaul of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), several aides said Friday.

The development comes after a Thursday meeting with Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Kit Bond (R-Mo.), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Bush administration officials, according to two aides.

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That plan differs from the approach Republicans offered before Memorial Day to give that authority to the secret court that operates under the FISA. But the deal allows a court to look at a lower standard of evidence to determine if companies received such orders — a provision sought by the GOP, according to one person involved in the talks.

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Civil libertarians are certain to object to the deal over concerns that courts may simply rubberstamp immunity orders without looking at the possibility that companies broke the law.

Caroline Fredrickson, director of the Washington legislative office of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the deal appears unconstitutional.

Read more: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/fisa-negotiators-near-deal-2008-06-13.html

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Steny Hoyer and Jay Rockefeller are negotiating away our Constitution.

Criminal complicity.

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1. why do democrats continue to help shred the bill of rights?

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2. After 9-11 many of them thought the Bill of Rights would be

politically obsolete - and all they care about is politics. But it's turned out that the BOR has more staying power than they expected... so now they are left scrambling to cover their fat white asses.

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3. But, is Timmy still dead?

This is the stuff that should be on the news!

-Hoot

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4. Enough to make anyone sick,

that so many keep telling them NO to capitulating and compromising yet they just continue on like "WE THE PEOPLE" just don't matter. Booo$hCo and corporations first and foremost and the hell with the rest of us...

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5. It still doesn't hurt to keep telling them no,

Here's a good way to do it: www.stopthespying.org