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Whistleblower: FISA 'compromise' advances Police state agenda!

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posted on Jun, 30 2008 @ 01:14 AM
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Whistleblower: FISA 'compromise' advances Police state agenda!


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“It’s a Congressional coup against the Constitution.”

Retired AT&T engineer Mark Klein has condemned the Senate’s Wednesday cloture vote on the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.

The bill, if passed by final vote planned for July 8, would revise the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to retroactively grant immunity to customers’ civil lawsuits against telecommunications companies who participated in the National Security Administration’s warrantless wiretapping program, on the condition that they can provide documentation that they were told ahead of time that their activities were legal.

This cynical deal is a Democratic exercise in deceit and cowardice,” he went on. “Congress has made the FISA law a dead letter–such a law is useless if the president can break it with impunity. Thus the Democrats have surreptitiously repudiated the main reform of the post-Watergate era and adopted Nixon’s line: ‘When the president does it that means that it is not illegal.’ This is the judicial logic of a dictatorship
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posted on Jun, 30 2008 @ 01:14 AM
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In your face people!

Can you say DICTATOR!
Our Government has no ACCOUNTABLITY They do as they please ,and YOU pay for this with your tax dollars.

Now we become the enemy.

rawstory.com
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