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Sen. Kennedy played a major role during the 1970s in Grafting the restrictions that made it so difficult for the FBI and CIA to do the job of protecting the American people. One of the most pernicious restrictions was the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) passed in 1978. President Franklin Roosevelt, in 1940, had ordered the FBI to wiretap Nazis and Communists because they were operating in the United States on behalf of hostile foreign powers.

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[Liz]

An outrage. .......... they are lamenting his passing and his "Senate collegiality".....which comes as a surprise to Robert Bork, of whom the collegial Ted said in 1986: "Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters . . ."

So much for collegiality.

Kennedy is now endlessly lauded for his support of "women's rights," ie, abortion. Here was his 1971 take on abortion: "Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized -- the right to be born, the right to love, the right to grow old."

He treated his first wife like dirt...leaving her unconscious in the back seat of a car while he partied. No wonder she became an alcoholic.

(GAG) THIS IS THE MAN WHO MADE OSAMA (sic) PRESIDENT With a TelePrompTer, Teddy was articulate, but not when he wasn't reading a prepared statement. In 2005, at the National Press Club, he referred to the current president as "Osama bin La -- uh, Osama, Obama, uh, Obama."