BUSH Urges Changes To FISA = TOTAL & ABSOLUTE SPYING - No Questions Asked - Plus Immunity (NPR)

[kpete]

Bush Administration Urges Changes to FISA
by Martin Kaste

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The administration says it wants to make the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — or FISA — more "technology-neutral" — that is, it wants to make sure spy agencies can use new forms of surveillance that aren't specifically foreseen in the law.

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But Mike German, of the American Civil Liberties Union, points out that the bill gives the executive branch more leeway to spy on private electronic communications without a court order — without even the after-the-fact court orders already allowed by FISA.

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The ACLU and other privacy groups object to another proposed change that offers legal cover to anybody — or any company — that cooperates with the government's spying.

Several major phone companies have been sued for sharing their customers' phone records with the government, and suits from around the country are being rolled into a massive case in a federal court in San Francisco. But if the Bush administration's changes are passed, the companies would get immunity, retroactive to Sept. 11, 2001.

more at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9724356

[fasttense]

1. Bush acts as if he is a dictator in a Banana Republic.

[Lerkfish]

3. he's not acting: he IS a dictator in a banana republic, thanks to republican abdication of congress

[dysfunctional press]

4. well...isn't he?

sure feels more and more like it every day to me.

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. Well it's so much easier that way, doncha know. And he's responsible for our Banana Republic .

[snappyturtle]

2. Bush can urge all we wants! He just want to protect

himself and his administration for the atrocities on our privacy ex post facto.

[L. Coyote]

5. We need a retroactive law to make stealing elections legal too!! n/t

[formercia]

6. It's called the Statute of Limitations

that's why Junior is trying to run out the clock.

[Orsino]

7. The Only Answer: More, More, More n/t

[AnnInLa]

9. Elections Have Consequences

hopefully

[Nikki Stone1]

10. Let's not forget that.

Any banana slug with a D get my vote

[Leopolds Ghost]

16. Even if they're willing to support this "In theory"? Like Mikulski, Rockefeller?

[bobthedrummer]

11. We've been fascist ruled for many years this is another move to totalitarian.

It is no coincidence how this interfaces with the total war visions of the Decider's loyal inner circle of advisors (a culture of death) both past and present.

Fascist=privatized military government=BFEE/HOMELAND(tm).

Privatized central banks, privatized courts, unitary executive, yep-that's fascism and the Decider was installed in DC by a "decision" in December 2000 made within a criminally corrupted system.

[alfredo]

12. Fuck him and the horse he rode in on.

[LeftCoast]

13. Hey now! What'd that horse ever do to you?

And as for Bush? I doubt he's a very good fuck in any case.

:)

[alfredo]

17. I forgot. He's afraid of horses.

I guess this is about all he can handle.




Sex with him? GAAAAA!!!

[Jack Rabbit]

14. What to see this get loughed out of a committee?

It's a new game in town, Frat Boy. You have to pay for your drinks now.

[Morgana LaFey]

15. Man, you've got more faith in these guys than I do. I PRAY you're

right.

[hang a left]

18. What are the possible chances that this could pass??

[KelleyKramer]

19. These people have no shame

Everytime you think you've seen it all.. then they go and out-do themselves.