Re: FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act)
Thanks to the efforts of 41 House Democrats and 16 Senate Democrats, the White House & their Republican lackeys have been handed another part of their right-wing agenda. After all the clamor over illegal wiretapping, these 57 have allowed the practice of conducting wiretaps without a warrant to be officially approved, putting such decisions exclusively in the hands of the administration (gulp) and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (double gulp). Undoubtedly, they caved in the face of selective and fear-mongering intelligence, enhanced by a healthy dose of their own spinelessness. In a way, this was actually worse than the Democrats’ complicity in the decision to invade Iraq: this time, the numbers were on their side.
We would like to take this opportunity to change our official political affiliation from “Independent” to “None of the above.”
