Since when do turds like Fiengold care about The Bill Of Rights?
I'll answer that. Only when they can twist it their own purpose.
They put in this provision to appease the democrats.
And the threat is all it takes to send the GOP alleged-majority to cowering and sucking thumbs.
well, I'm glad my senator has set aside time to finally read the Bill of Rights.....
"he was making plans to read aloud from the Bill of Rights"
That would probably make Russ the only democrat in the senate who has read it.
In a letter Thursday, a bipartisan group of six senators said the tentative deal had caused them "deep concern" because it did not go far enough in "making reasonable changes to the original law to protect innocent people from unnecessary and intrusive government surveillance."I'm calling my critters this morning. Please ping the remaining constitutionalists here.
Reflecting the political breadth of concerns about the law, the letter was signed by three Republicans - Senators Larry E. Craig, John E. Sununu and Lisa Murkowksi - and three Democrats - Senators Richard J. Durbin and Ken Salazar and Mr. Feingold.
The group called for tighter restrictions on the government's ability to demand records and its use of so-called "sneak and peak" warrants to conduct secret searches without immediately informing the target, among other measures.
"We have worked too long and too hard to allow this conference report to eliminate the modest protections for civil liberties that were agreed to unanimously in the Senate," Ms. Murkowski, of Alaska, said in a separate statement.
"There is still time for the conference committee to step back and agree to the Senate's bipartisan approach. If the conference committee doesn't do that, we will fight to stop this bill from becoming law."
Good. I hope the dems block the whole bill forever. The government needs less power to violate our rights, not more.
Have to wonder how the media lets a slimeball like Dick Durbin rail against the wiretapping provisions of the Patriot Act when he passed along an illegally taped phone call between Newt Gingrich and his legal team.
Time for the nuclear option.