Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Any Victory for Civil Liberties Under This President is Worth Note
This President, a fear-mongering blight on our national soul, will likely veto the bill and have the votes to sustain. We are all the less for it.
- The bill ... did not contain two provisions demanded by the White House. One would have provided retroactive legal immunity to telecommunications companies that had helped the N.SA. to conduct eavesdropping without warrants. A second would have made the surveillance program permanent — instead, the legislation expires in two years.
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