Spector's screwed up priorities
Concern Troll Arlen Spector is at it again. Three days before the Super Bowl, the Pennsylvania Republican announced that he intends to look into why the NFL ordered the destruction of the so-called...
View ArticleFISA, a tale of $$$$$$$$$ & politics
Does it ever get old? Follow the money and pull a few things together. [It's been said, but to be clear: FISA courts work well. They processed tens of thousands of spying requests since 1978 while...
View ArticleGodzilla Attacks or Mideast cutoff from Internet
In the span of 1 week, 4 undersea cables have been cut, leading to the serious degradation of Internet service from the Middle east all the way to India. Now, we all know the Rule Once is...
View ArticleHouse Prepares For Telecom Immunity Fight, Action Diary
While no one knows for sure what will happen in the Senate when they finally vote for the Amendment taking the Immunity out of the Intel Comm. Bill, it appears those in the House of Reps. are making...
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Ringy-Dingy Rocky and his rightwing FISA fight
On Thursday, Feb 7, 2008 Senator Rockefeller (D-WV) cast two (count 'em TWO) votes to take away your constitutional rights by joining with the senate minority and a handful of DLC Democrats. Why would...
View ArticleLIVEBLOG: FISA -- Dodd Speaks Now!! Live
Senator Chris Dodd is up now in the Senate talking about telecom immunity. He's on fire! He is outraged at Mike McConnell's statement that we cannot allow the telecoms to be subject to suits because it...
View ArticleOh My God! He is at mid 30's
You have got to be kidding me! How could anyone with a D behind their name back ANYTHING that Bush wants. Especially the ones that completely behind big business not the safety or well being of this...
View ArticleBush: 'They're afraid they’re going to be sued'
It's really kind of nice, in a way, to have a drug-addicted dunderhead for a President. He manages to let slip a few truisms now and then. Here's what he said regarding the FISA battle: And these...
View ArticleBREAKING: NY Times: FBI Had Unauthorized Access to E-Mail - Now With Link
According to the NY Times: A technical glitch gave the F.B.I. access to the e-mail messages from an entire computer network — perhaps hundreds of accounts or more — instead of simply the lone e-mail...
View ArticleDemocrats Hand Over Own Balls to President at Rose Garden Ceremony
In a Rose Garden ceremony this morning, a congressional delegation led by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) formally handed over their balls to President George W. Bush....
View ArticleMcCain and the Lobbyist--Missing the Story of the Miss
Once again the fabled "newspaper of record" has decided, in its "wisdom," to withhold an important political story until after the voters cannot use it. This time it's about McCain corruption.
View ArticleHoly Crap did I just have a scary thought.
We really must thank Senator Kennedy for getting the ball rolling with his "if we take the President at his word, he is willing to let Americans die to protect the phone companies" Senate speech last...
View ArticleDid the Bush Administration just commit slander?
Yesterday I wrote a diary about telecom immunity and the suggestion that the telecoms might not help us again if they think they're going to be sued. This is all just insinuated by people in the Bush...
View ArticleAn Open Letter To Congress
When the Congress of the United States is willing to cede oversight responsibilities of the Intelligence Community to the Executive Branch, I have every right and reason to be concerned. When the...
View ArticleTelecom Immunity: Violation of Church-State Separation?
If Dubya prevails in providing immunity to the Telecoms, he has a plan for them to use the millions they'll save that they had earmarked for legal defense funds. Is it possible that his sinister...
View ArticleMy Blue Dog Dem
I reside in the 17th Congressional District in Pennsylvania, and am represented by Congressman Tim Holden. I do not like my Congressman anymore. Or his know-nothing staff.
View ArticleNet Neutrality: Bit by Bit, then, One Day, Its Gone
This is not a candidate diary, but it is another reason to elect Obama. Just like our civil liberties that, when not held on to with vigilance, slowly slip away, the user-content control of the...
View ArticleFISA Action Alert: Here we go again (Updated below)
We should be used to this by now, but it appears the Democratic leadership is preparing to sell us down the river yet again. Here's the link. I know little beyond this basic story, but based on...
View ArticleThey're going to bundle FISA with the War Supplmental - UPDATED: war funding...
UPDATE: The best information I have is the Rules Committee is acting on the FISA bill right now, and they're waiving the requirements that would conceivably allow them to act on both war funding and...
View ArticleFISA Fight: Leahy, Feingold Say "No"
Democrats on both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees should take note of Chairman Leahy's opposition (via e-mail): "After months of negotiations, the legislation unveiled today to replace the...
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