Posted on 02/14/2008 12:06:10 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
In today's article, I catalogue some of the problems with the Senate bill which would overhaul FISA while explaining that the bill absolutely must be passed by the House or our foreign intelligence collection is going to collapse. It would be unconscionable for Democrats to allow that to happen while our nation confronts an enemy hell-bent on reprising 9/11 and while we have 200,000 men and women in uniform relying on the continuing flow of information from our intelligence services.
Well it looks like the unconscionable is about to occur. I am hearing from several sources that the House is planning to recess on Friday without taking up the Senate bill. That would mean the lapse of our surveillance authority at midnight.
This is a game of roulette with our national security, spearheaded by the Democratic leadership in the House, which is following the lead of the party's two presidential contenders, Sens. Obama and Clinton. Both of them voted against the emergency authorization last summer, and Obama voted against the Senate bill on Tuesday (Clinton did not bother to vote). Make no mistake. The MoveOn.org crowd is calling the shots on that side of the aisle.
President Bush has to keep pounding this, as does Sen. McCain. This is not politics, folks. For grown-ups, this is life and death.
The Democrat Party and MoveOn.org should both immediately be labelled a subversive organization and their leadership dealt with accordingly.
FISA Reform: The Bad Bill that Beats No Bill
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within the next 48 hours or the current stopgap measure, the Protect America Act, will expire.
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If that happens, the current statutory authority for the intelligence community to monitor foreign terrorists overseas will end. The CIA and NSA, under a secret FISA court ruling Americans have not been permitted to review, would be required to seek probable-cause judicial warrants to surveil terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere around the globe. That impossible burden bringing tens of thousands of enemy communications under FISAs arduous legal procedures, all for the benefit of alien enemies who have no right to privacy protection under American law would shut down intelligence collection.
The day is coming when it will be true that without these restrictions, we would have had the chance to prevent an attack.
As Rush pointed out yesterday, giving a huge gift to McCain, he needs to blast the Dems on this. Barry voted against it and Mrs. Clinton didn’t even show up!
Disgusting. We’ll know exactly who to blame if something happens, God forbid.
I wish the accordingly was within MY definition.
LLS
Must have something to do with global warming/sarc.
the bill absolutely must be passed by the House or our foreign intelligence collection is going to collapse. It would be unconscionable for Democrats to allow that to happen while our nation confronts an enemy hell-bent on reprising 9/11 and while we have 200,000 men and women in uniform relying on the continuing flow of information from our intelligence services... This is a game of roulette with our national security, spearheaded by the Democratic leadership in the House, which is following the lead of the party's two presidential contenders, Sens. Obama and Clinton. Both of them voted against the emergency authorization last summer, and Obama voted against the Senate bill on Tuesday (Clinton did not bother to vote). Make no mistake. The MoveOn.org crowd is calling the shots on that side of the aisle. President Bush has to keep pounding this, as does Sen. McCain. This is not politics, folks. For grown-ups, this is life and death.
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