Dems Join Suit to Ban Terrorist Surveillance

NewsMax ^ | 5/12/06

[areafiftyone]

Until now, Democrats had insisted that they didn't want to end President Bush's terrorist surveillance program, saying instead that the law merely needed to be changed to make terrorist surveillance inside the U.S. illegal.

On Wednesday, however - even before USA Today's bogus report about the NSA's phone number data collection program - 71 House Democrats signed up to sponsor a move that would make it illegal for the NSA to continue to monitor terrorist phone calls.

The liberal web site Raw Story reported Thursday:

"The 71 Democrats and one independent filed an amicus brief in two federal courts reviewing challenges to the warrantless wiretapping program in Detroit and New York, joining the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights."

"Both suits demand the program be stopped."

Predictably, Michigan Democrat John Conyers led the charge: "As our brief makes clear, this Congress dealt with this issue authoritatively almost 30 years ago - warrantless spying on American soil is flatly prohibited," he railed.

[Mr. Silverback]

You don't really want the Dems to lose their lawsuit, do you? Phone records are nice to have if you are out to get your political opponents, but credit card and bank records are even better if you really want to know who is doing what. The G.W. Orwell administration knows this and they likely have such information on you and all the Dems in Congress by now.

Evidence, please. Also, please enlighten me as to how a phone number with no name attached violates anyone's privacy.

[MurryMom]

Please confirm you that you will not have any complaint about Democrats having the same info controlled by the G.W. Orwell administration now, once the Democrats take the White House and Congress in 2009. After you respond to the substance of my post, I will respond to yours.

[Mr. Silverback]

First, if you think the dems are going to have the Congress and White House in '09, then to quote The Dread Pirate Roberts, you should "get used to disappointment."

Second, if the Dems would use the information in the same way the current administration is using it, I would not only have no complaint, I would be downright enthusiastic. This program makes terrorists lives harder and doesn't violate anyone's privacy, so if President Hillary wants to use it as is, good for her.