Oh, Christ, Just Fuck Me
10 July 2008 by Bob
Senate Accepts Retroactive Immunity for Telecoms
The Senate voted 68-29 on Wednesday to broaden the authority of the executive branch by approving changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (H.R.6304) was passed by the House on June 20. Earlier Wednesday, the Senate struck down three amendments that would have delayed, weakened or revoked a controversial provision in the bill to grant unconditional, retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that assisted the White House in its warrantless wiretapping program. [...] The amendment brought forward by Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Connecticut) and Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) would have stripped the retroactive immunity provision altogether. The Bingaman amendment failed 42-56, the Specter amendment failed 37-61 and the Dodd-Feingold amendment failed 32-66; While Senators Dodd and Feingold considered a filibuster of the final legislation after their amendments failed, they lacked the necessary votes to stop the vote from taking place. “Mr. President, I sit on the Intelligence and Judiciary committees, and I am one of the few members of this body who has been fully briefed on the warrantless wiretapping program,” Feingold stated Wednesday on the Senate floor. “And, based on what I know, I can promise that if more information is declassified about the program in the future, as is likely to happen either due to the Inspector General report, the election of a new president, or simply the passage of time, members of this body will regret that we passed this legislation.”
So, everyone, go and call your senators and tell them JUST HOW FUCKING STUPID THEY ARE if they voted “yes” for this bullshit.
There goes the neighborhood. Welcome to Soviet Amerikkka, people…
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