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Has anyone else rec'd one of these?
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Thank you for contacting me about the proposed legislation to give phone companies legal immunity for past wiretapping. I share both your strong opposition to this special interest provision and your frustration that the President and his supporters in Congress continue to push it. This fight is just one more example of why things in Washington must change.
I have consistently opposed this Administration's efforts to use debates about our national security to expand its own power, whether that was in regard to the conduct of the Iraq war or its restrictions on our civil liberties through domestic surveillance programs or suspension of habeas corpus. It is time to restore oversight and accountability in the FISA program, and rejecting this unprecedented grant of retroactive immunity is a good place to start.
Giving retroactive immunity to telecom companies is simply wrong. Thankfully, the most recent effort to pass this legislation at the end of the legislative year failed. I unequivocally oppose this grant of immunity and support the filibuster of it. I cosponsored Senator Dodd’s proposal that would remove it from the current FISA bill.
This Administration has put forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand. When I am president, there will be no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens; no more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime; no more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. Our Constitution works, and so does the FISA court. By working with Congress and respecting our courts, I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our Constitution and our freedom.
Thank you again for contacting me. I look forward to continuing to wage this fight.
Sincerely,
Barack Obama
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Paid for by Obama for America
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That, and
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]ZERO mention of any awareness of (or intention to do anything ABOUT) the looming "compromise". Which is, of course, the issue which prompted this recycled bit of blather posing as a response.
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Paul, I'm tempted to reply to "Henry" in a much less civil manner
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]N/T
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PD
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I did respond to Henry.
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Sysprog
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Thanks" for the body blow. Jeezuz.
F*ckin' Obama.
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Obama contact info
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Press Option 6 ("any other questions"). Nobody answering the phones at this hour, it seems.
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adnoto, I might be "down with" the Revolution...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]...but what, exactly, ARE you advocating? I mean, if you have actual ideas, I'd like to here them. More specific than [paraphrasing] "take a bodily stand". No snark, I just have no idea what you're suggesting.
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here = hear
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]in my world
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W.E.S.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Given your prior prognostication track record, don't you think we'd all be better served (you, especially) if you knocked it off?
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/200791.php
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please, call Obama NOW!
And if you've already called, call again!
Word is, Vote is Friday!
(866) 675-2008 [Dial 6, then 0, on the menu]
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Chernobyl
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Then Obama should have simply stayed the f*ck OUT of it!
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Stainy Whore's office isclearly not happy w/ the tome of the calls they've been getting.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Too bad, so sad.
"Majority Leader's Office"
202-225-3130
Thanks brendancalling for the # and the aka
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So irate
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm typing even more incompetently than usual.
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Stainy Whore's office is clearly not happy w/ the tone of the calls they've been getting.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Too bad, so sad.
"Majority Leader's Office"
202-225-3130
Thanks brendancalling for the # and the aka
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BTW
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama's office just told me that since the vote is only coming up in the House on Friday,
a) Senator Obama "can't do much about it", and
b) There's no real emergency
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Paul Dirks
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I submit that it is incumbent upon YOU, now that I've mistakenly followed your linky, to tell me how to clean vomit out of my keyboard.
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What about the PRE 9-11 taps?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Am I grasping at straws?
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And THAT's why I'm going to stand conspicuously silent
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]While my Democratic colleagues and I sell out the U.S. Constitution via a FISA "compromise" that guarantees telco immunity.
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Pelosi's office isn't answering any questions -
[Read the article: George Bush's latest powers, courtesy of the Democratic Congress]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They immediately switch you over to the speaker's voice mail to leave a message.
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Conyers' office says
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's a Pelosi/Hoyer decision what legislation reaches the floor, and all Conyers can do is vote against it.
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Just got my Obama vid linky via email from the campaign
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Telling me how he's opted out of Public financing, and urging me to help.
You've got to be kidding me. Timing is everything.
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Never thought I'd say this, but...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]...what about HILLARY!? She could really make some news with this issue.
Yes, I know, in her heart of hearts, she's probably irritated that Steny negotiated his own little sweetheart deal without her. But if she could be convinced that it was in HER OWN best interests to come out strong against telco immunity, what do you think she'd do?
Yes, I'm grasping.
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flamgirl
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm hot for Lara Logan.
But that's neither here nor there.
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Hillary's office very much NOT involved with the issue
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I posed as an upstate-New Yorker (easy, since I grew up there), and gave the staffer my best "Hillary could steal a lot of thunder" spiel.
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Thank you, Glenn, for efforts, and for those ADs
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]F*ck!ng Hoyer.
F*ck!ng Pelosi.
F*ck!ng Democrats.
F*ck!ng OBAMA!
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No comment
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/obama_spokesman_i_dont_know_hi.php
or click sig for linky
Obama Spokesman: I Don't Know His Stance On FISA
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Quick on the draw?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Number me among those who've contacted the Obama campaign, asked to be removed from their contact database, vowed to pledge no further funds for ANY DemoCRAPS...
and plans on sitting home election day.