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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I will never give up on this country.
Glenn and Sen. Dodd for fighting the good fight.
I'd be proud to stand with you any day...
I will never give up on this country.-- prunes
Yes. Cold, dead fingers and all that.
Dodd's and Feingold's efforts have been tremendous, and so have yours. You and all those who have stood-up against this assault upon our Constitution are real American heroes and patriots. Thanks again.
Word, Senator, word. That's lingo for "thanks for all the fish", right?
Anyway, we ain't done yet. There are some who care. Thanks, Glenn, especially, for the clarity and the emphases of your tireless efforts. It ain't over til it's over, and it ain't over yet.
Wow. What a name! It sounds like "The Democrats' Litigation Reform Project." Or "The United Nations' Spending Control Project." Or "The Cuban Freedom and Democracy Project." Or "The Robert Mugabe Better Government Project."
Can somebody please remind me what we might find on the short list of the ACLU's contribution(s) to "National Security"? Quite seriously, one might be able to argue that the ACLU tries to protect civil liberty principles in the face of increased national security measures. In that respect, whether you agree with the ACLU or not, they would be best regarded as "The National Security Counter-weight."
But a "National Security Project"? Yeah, right.
aside from the money bomb effort and writing our senators...what ELSE can we do to right these wrongs?
As long as the fight goes on. I spent most of yesterday disappointed that I had taken Obama at his word, that he was indeed different, and that I voted for him over Hillary. Now I don't trust him.
On the bright side, I'm convinced more and more that some intrepid reporter will tunnel his way to the facts underpinning the Senate's perfidious vote. And when those facts see the light of day, more than half the Senate will be doing a perp-walk.
and while we're at it, could somebody please install a tap on Elephantman's home phone? Or perhaps install a secret web cam in his shower? Somebody really deserves to have his privacy violated, since he apparently thinks civil liberties don't matter a damn.
GG - is there any way you can add Cindy Sheehan to the list of candidates the Accountability Now PAC is supporting?
Speaker Pelosi has rolled over and bowed down so many times that she must be challenged.
I realize it might sit poorly with some of the PAC organizers to send money to an independent, but the House will remain strongly Democratic after November regardless - so one seat going Indie wouldn't be a huge loss. Plus helping to remove Pelosi would speak volumes about citizen anger surrounding the FISA "compromise" passing.
As proof that Sheehan gets it, she posted a blog entitled "Memorial Service for the 4th Amendment" the day the House passed FISA and yesterday asked for Orwellian contributions of $19.84 in an email whose subject was "Don't Let Big Brother Catch You Reading This Email..."
Thank you for thinking about it.
www.cindyforcongress.com
www.cindyforcongress.org - not .com
(So conditioned to the .com)
thanks for the info...I JUST donated!
Thanks, Glenn! And to everybody else who took some form of action in regards to this vote (even if it was just thinking about it for the first time; like me).
This is the type of thing that gives me great hope in these trying and utterly distracted times.
Obmam voted with Dodd on those amendments. The amedments in regard to immunity for telecoms did NOT fail because of Obama. Notice Dodd only mentioned the Telecom immunities in his letter.
I speaking with ohter lawyers, they don't think it violates the 4th Amendment or expands warantless wire tapping on U.s. citizens.
How come you are not addressing the Exclusivity clause.?
why didn't you take the opportunity to grill the ACLU hack about their stupid-ass 2nd amendment position in light of Heller? Even anti-gunners agree that their position is laughably partisan and ideologically driven.
Greenwald used to be one of the few Salon contributors whose ideology didn't compromise his journalists integrity too much- go get 'em, Glenn!
There was a solid design in our rule of law. Staggered elections. Balance of power. Freedom of the press.
We thought it could stand the test of time. When is the system so far gone that it cannot recover? How close are we to that place?
It's wonderful to see such an organized set of filings ready to go as soon as W signed the bill into law.
After begging forgiveness for not listening to the interview yet or reading the earlier thread of the day, I would like to know if there is any chance that the Constitutional challenge here or in one of the EFF suits might actually succeed before the civil suits formally get dismissed? I assume that if the suits are dismissed before the law gets voided in part they still are gone, aren't they?
by helping to pay off his campaign debt. There is still a contribution button on his website.
Can somebody please remind me what we might find on the short list of the ACLU's contribution(s) to "National Security"?
Protecting us from dangerous psychopaths like Bush.
The ACLU's National Security Project is a team that is fighting the numerous abuses of the Constitution in the name of "National Security" by our fearless leaders. It figures you would misinterpret the meaning.
I've nothing else to add.
you can thank Senator Dodd
by helping to pay off his campaign debt. There is still a contribution button on his website.
Good idea. It sounds like a better use of my money than contributing to Obama's campaign. I think I'll also send some of my would-have-been-contributed-to-Obama money to ACLU and EFF.
" The new statute permits the NSA to intercept phone calls and e-mails between the U.S. and a foreign location, without making any showing to a court and without judicial oversight, whether or not the communication has anything to do with al Qaeda -- indeed, even if there is no evidence that the communication has anything to do with terrorism, or any threat to national security."
However this does not apply to U.S. citizens. only foreigners and foreigners living in the U.S. The new FISA does NOT allow warrant less wire tapping on U.s. citizens. It does expand the timing from 3 to seven days. The new FISA law gives MORE over sight to the FISA courts and the Congress. The new FISA bill has an exclusivity clause that bans a president from authorizing surveillance under exclusive powers as president bush did. It has to be under Congressional stature.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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