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What backroom conniving are Steny Hoyer and the Chris Carney Blue Dogs up to on FISA? Emerging reports suggest that House Democrats are on the verge of reversing their only meaningful success since being handed control of Congress. Glenn Greenwald [2008-05-02]

• More on Carney from VoteSmart

  http://www.votesmart.org/npat.php?can_id=MPA16016

  Below are Carney's own answers to a policy questionaire, filed by him in the 2006 cycle.

  No b) Should the United States grant law enforcement agencies greater discretion to read mail and email, tap phones, and conduct random searches to prevent future terrorist attacks?

  and

  On an attached page, disk, or via email, please explain in a total of 75 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.

  National Security must be our country's number one priority. As a counterterrorism expert, I know that our border and port security have been ignored by Washington for years. We must secure our borders, and we must not reward illegal immigrants with amnesty.

  and

  I would support pre-emptive strikes if, and only if, we have iron-clad evidence of imminent attacks to US interests.

  Interests are not the same as US territory or citizens, or even installations overseas. "Interests" can and does mean anything one wants it to mean.

  The guy's outlook is quite consistent with Neoconserviatism.

  -- casual_observer
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