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The House Stands Strong on Wiretapping
Good news from Washington today...the House of Representatives has stood tall for our civil liberties and the rule of law, and passed a much-improved wiretapping reform bill that does not contain retroactive immunity for telecom companies that cooperated in illegal...
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New House FISA Bill
Tim Stark at CQ has new information about what House Democrats are doing on FISA. The short version is that they're circumventing the intra-congressional negotiations for compromise legislation and taking another shot at a bill in the House. That was...
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Another Potential FISA Deal Floated
Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times reports a new possible deal on FISA coming out of the House: The tentative proposal worked out by House Democratic leaders, officials said, has three main elements. In continued defiance of the White...
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Should Dems Just Do Nothing on FISA?
We will likely know next week whether or not Glenn Greenwald's reporting on Democrats caving on FISA is substantively correct or not. He has said it comes from unimpeachable sources and while some in the House are denying it, it...
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Greenwald: House FISA Cave Imminent
Glenn Greenwald breaks word of the House "compromise" legislation that will effectively give the Bush administration everything they want, closely in line to the bad Senate legislation. It seems that the House will pass a Title I bill that has...
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Plaintiff Speaks About Rule of Law
Hugh D'Andrade of EFF's Deeplinks Blog pulls a great quote from Tash Hepting, a plaintiff in a case against AT&T that would be quashed if retroactive immunity becomes law. In an interview on NPR this morning, he objected to the...
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Colbert: AT&Treason
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Emails, Fake Threats & Retroactive Immunity
Ryan Singel at Threat Level makes a key observation about the information in the Washington Post story yesterday on the potential FISA deal in Congress. In the end, it turns out it's all about the emails. The fight in Congress...
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More Signs of Capitulation on FISA
Another day, another article pointing towards Democratic capitulation on FISA. The Washington Post reports: Some aides on Capitol Hill were discussing the potential for the House passing the Senate version but breaking it into two votes: one on the portion...
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House Democrats Preparing to Back Down on Retroactive Immunity
Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chair Silvestre Reyes, February 14th, in a letter to President Bush: You have also suggested that Congress must grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies. As someone who has been briefed on our most sensitive intelligence programs,...
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Plaintiffs: "Protect the Rights of American Citizens"
The plaintiffs of one of the lawsuits against the telecom companies have written an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune about why they sued AT&T. Their suit would be killed by legislation that includes retroactive immunity. There's been a lot of...
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Immunity, Not Security, At Stake in FISA Debate
In today's New York Times, Eric Lichblau has an article going about how the current telecom debate is not focused on any security related matters, but instead hinges on granting retroactive immunity to telecoms that helped the Bush administration spy...
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Potential Deal Could Assure Retroactive Immunity
This is from last night's Congress Daily PM dispatch by Chris Strohm and Christian Bourge: To break an impasse over legislation overhauling the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, House Democratic leaders are considering the option of taking up a Senate-passed FISA...
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Billboard Liberation Front Celebrates AT&T/NSA Collaboration
The photo says it all, but this press release from the Bay Area's Billboard Liberation Front is a brilliant work of art in its own right: The Billboard Liberation Front today announced a major new advertising improvement campaign executed...
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Stop the Spying Video
StopTheSpying.org, a product of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (which CREDO Action funds) and People For the American Way, has produced a video of the citizen generated photo messages against warrantless wiretapping....
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GOP on FISA: They Make More Things Up
You know things are getting bad for the Republicans when their main line of attack on retroactive immunity becomes completely reliant on falsehood. Conservative columnist Robert Novak pens a column in today's Washington Post that peddles the lie that Democrats...
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Who's Demanding Amnesty?
This paragraph in Carl Hulse's NY Times piece on FISA today stood out: Ben Powell, general counsel for the director of national intelligence's office, said some carriers had already asked whether they could be compelled to cooperate even without legal...
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Olbermann's Special Comment on Bush's FISA Fear Mongering
This is right up there with one of the best Special Comments I've seen Keith Olbermann give. I watched it with my Dad and I swear our jaws slowly dropped towards the floor as Olbermann unrelentingly takes the fight...
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Update: House to Recess, PAA to Sunset
Earlier today I'd posted that it seemed likely that the Protect America Act would be allowed to sunset this weekend, based on a combination of Republican obstructionism on getting an extension and that the PAA expiring will not impact our...
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Reyes to Bush: I Won't Back Down
Representative Silvestre Reyes is a key member in the current FISA fight. Reyes is Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. His committee rejected the concept of retroactive immunity last fall, one of the three congressional committees that...
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Protect America Act Likely To Sunset
Yesterday House Republicans blocked a 21 day extension to the Protect America Act. The law is scheduled to sunset this Friday, after having previously received a 15 day extension at the end of January. Don't worry - the PAA sunset...
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Blue Dog Dems & Telecom Money
The Blue Dog Democrats in the House are threatening to vote with Republicans if they don't get legislation that grants the big telecom companies retroactive immunity. These twenty-one Dems have the power to derail the good, immunity-free House RESTORE Act....
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Call the Blue Dogs
McJoan at Daily Kos alerts us that the Blue Dogs in the House are looking to be an obstacle to the efforts to stop retroactive immunity. The Blue Dogs that have endorsed the Senate passed bill wrote to Pelosi last...
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The People's House
Why do we have two houses of Congress? Well, if one house decides to represent the elites, the other house -- the "lower" house -- the People's House -- can make matters right. Yesterday, the Senate put rule-of-corporations over rule-of-law...
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Twelve Steps to Restore Checks & Balances
On a day when the Legislative Branch has effectively given up its responsibility of oversight and sanctioned the worst tendencies of our current Executive Branch, it's important to remember that there are still steps we can take in the other...
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Retroactive Immunity Passed by Senate
The Senate just passed S.2248, the Intelligence Committee's FISA reform legislation, including approval to massive new surveillance powers for the executive branch and retroactive immunity for telecom companies who helped the Bush administration spy on Americans without warrant. The vote...
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Dodd: We Just Sanctioned the Single Largest Invasion of Privacy in the History of the Country
I was on a blogger and reporter conference call with Senator Chris Dodd this afternoon. David Isenberg, McJoan at Daily Kos and Jason Rosenbaum of The Seminal have already posted on it. Dodd announced that because the will of the...
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This Passes for Leadership?
Via McJoan at Daily Kos, Senator Harry Reid shows what must pass for spine in his office: If, as appears likely, none of the amendments to strike or modify the provisions of the bill concerning retroactive immunity are adopted, we...
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FISA Vote Totals: Part II
The Dodd/Feingold Amendment 3907 to strip retroactive immunity from the underlying SSCI bill just failed, 31-67. 51 votes were needed to pass. Voting with the Republicans were the following eighteen Democrats (again, rough count): Bayh, Inouye, Johnson, Landrieu, McCaskill, Ben...
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FISA Vote Totals: Part I
Whitehouse 3920 was agreed to by voice vote. Feinstein 3910 - the exclusivity amendment - failed 57-41. 60 votes were needed to pass. Republicans voting with the Democrats were Republicans Hagel, Murkowski, Smith, Snowe, Collins, Sununu, Specter, Voinovich, and Craig....
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FISA Amendment Schedule
Last night Senator Reid listed the order in which FISA amendments will receive votes today. Voting starts around 10 AM Eastern. I'm pulling links for each amendment from Cboldt's great post on the UC agreement. Three of the eight remaining...
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Dodd on FISA, Glenn Greenwald
Senator Chris Dodd quotes Glenn Greenwald on the floor of the Senate, as part of a two and a half hour speech last night on FISA and retroactive immunity! *** Matt Browner Hamlin helped lead the fight against telecom...
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FISA Process & Filibuster Update
McJoan at Daily Kos provides a brief explanation of the process for tomorrow: The procedure for tomorrow is that votes on the outstanding amendments will begin at 10:00. After these votes happen, they'll have the cloture vote. When Leahy and...
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Speaking of Republican Talking Points on FISA...
Steve Benen takes on the Wall Street Journal's FISA-related editorial today, which notably discusses something called the "anti-antiterror left." Benen responds: First, referring to the "anti-antiterror left" is just sad. The Wall Street Journal isn't just some random posting on...
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The Politics of FISA
Carl Hulse of the New York Times has an update on this week's FISA debate in the Senate. Not surprisingly, the piece appears on the NYT Blog and not the actual print edition of the paper. The article is solely...
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Stopping Sexism vs Stopping Retroactive Immunity
I've spent a great deal of time over the last four and a half months trying to pressure the major Democratic presidential candidates - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama - to use their platform as the two most important, most...
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FISA Amendments & Votes
Russ Feingold's amendment 3915 on use limits just failed, 40-56. Next up is Feingold's amendment 3913, which would ban reverse targeting of Americans. Update: Feingold's reverse targeting amendment, 3913, has just failed as well. The vote was 38-57. It's my...
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More FISA Votes Tonight
It looks like, after another day spent mostly debating the economic stimulus package, the Senate will be voting on four amendments to the FISA legislation tonight. Senator Reid said that there will be two roll call votes and two voice...
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Column: Democrats Need to Step Up on FISA
Allison Hantschel has a great column in the Southtown Star today on the FISA fight. Hantschel is better known to most in the blogosphere as Athenae of First Draft. The whole column's worth a read for its retrospective analysis of...
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Cardin Amendment Fails
Ben Cardin's Amendment 3930 to FISA legislation just failed 49-46. 60 "yes" votes were needed to pass, based on the negotiated agreement by the Senate Democratic and Republican leadership. The Cardin Amendment would have limited the SSCI bill to a...
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Bush Admin Continues to Show Its True Colors on FISA
Marcy Wheeler continues to have some of the most detailed analysis out there on the FISA amendments and what the Bush administration's responses to them mean. Recall that the administration has claimed, repeatedly, that its only goal with amending FISA...
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Threatening Congress
Just in time for another round of FISA legislative debate, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell is on the Hill drumming up the threat of Al Qaeda in Pakistan. A senior intelligence official said Tuesday evening that the testimony was...
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Feingold on the Bush Vision of a Police State
Feingold: The DNI envisions a government where, if it were technologically feasible, would listen in on every, every international phone call made by its citizens. And read every, every international email. Now that's a police state, Mr. President, not...
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The Republicans' SSCI Myopia
Watching the Republicans debate FISA amendments over the last number of days, one theme keeps coming up in their speeches. The Republicans are acting like only the Intelligence Committee has jurisdiction on FISA. They keep referring to the fact that...
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Rockefeller: More Illegal Spying, Please
I actually missed this speech yesterday, but fortunately Marcy Wheeler didn't. Jello Jay's speech is eye-popping for several reasons. It reveals he simply does not care if the government abuses this collection program. For him, it's more important to make...
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"The End is Near on FISA"
Late last night there was an exchange on the floor of the Senate between Senator Harry Reid and Republican Senator Jon Kyl that revealed the sad state of affairs in the FISA debate. If I ever had any doubt that...
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FISA Programming Notes
The Senate has, again, resumed debate of FISA in the Senate, though today's schedule is far less clear than we thought it would be. Though there was a good deal of debate on FISA amendments yesterday, no votes were held....
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Russ Feingold on FISA Legislation
Russ Feingold is interviewed in Newsweek and does a great job beating back Republican scare tactics and spurious arguments for surrendering our liberties in exchange for security. How has the debate overall come to be framed so incorrectly, as you...
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I Told My Senators...
I want telephone companies held accountable for their behavior. When they behave well, let's reward them by renewing our contracts and singing their praises. And they they behave badly, let's make sure they are treated as they deserve. So when...
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What Should We Think About the FISA Amendments Agreement?
I'm waiting for a response from Dodd's Senate office about whether or not he could or would filibuster final passage of the SSCI bill, if it were to contain retroactive immunity. Contrary to what has been reported, getting a vote...
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FISA Legislation Moves Forward
Democratic and Republican leadership in the Senate has reached an agreement about a slate of amendments to considered for the SSCI bill, as well as the voting requirements for each amendment and time allocated to debate. Here's a run down...
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Keith Olbermann on FISA & Retroactive Immunity
Keith Olbermann's Special Comment last night on Countdown was on the Bush administration's pursuit of retroactive immunity for telecom companies as part of FISA legislation. You can read the full transcript at Crooks & Liars. *** Matt Browner Hamlin...
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In Case You Weren't Sure Who the Bad Guys Were...
As if Matt Browner-Hamlin's posts hadn't been clear enough on the issue of domestic spying, Dick Cheney has now helped remind you one more reason the telephone companies are the bad guys: he's on their side. As Think Progress reports,...
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Negotiations on Retroactive Immunity Ongoing in the Senate
Senate Democrats are meeting today to strategize around FISA, while negotiations take place between Senators Reid and McConnell over what the legislative calendar will look like. Paul Kiel at TPM Muckraker has a good update on the negotiations between Democratic...
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Russ Feingold & Why the PAA is a Bad Law
Via Open Left, Senator Russ Feingold gives a very tight encapsulation of the fundamental problem with the Protect America Act and current efforts by Republicans in the Senate to keep there from being judicial and congressional oversight of domestic...
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Senate Also Passes PAA Extension
The Senate also passed a 15 day extension to the Protect America Act late last night. It will head to President Bush's desk to be signed into law, presumably. While this will give the Senate more time to negotiate a...
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House Passes Short Term PAA Extension
The House just passed a fifteen day extension to the Protect America Act. After today, they will be in recess for the remainder of the week. It will now be up to the Senate to pass this extension as well,...
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DMI on Retroactive Immunity in Bush's Speech
The Drum Major Institute, a progressive think tank, has posted their response to Bush's State of the Union address (Full disclosure: I'm a member in DMI's Netroots Advisory Council). Here's a clip from their section on FISA and retroactive immunity....
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FISA Response During SOTU
Last night I watched the State of the Union at a Living Liberally event in NYC. There were probably between 150-200 people there, including about a dozen Young Republicans. It was a very vocal crowd, with a lot of hoots,...
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Barack Obama on FISA
A very strong statement from Senator Barack Obama: I strongly oppose retroactive immunity in the FISA bill. Ever since 9/11, this Administration has put forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand. The FISA...
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FISA Debate Resumes Today
The Senate will resume its debate of FISA reform legislation today. Right now, Democratic and Republican leadership in the Senate are trying to negotiate the path forward. They might try to pass a short extension to the Protect America Act...
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What's Next in the Wiretapping Debate
Paul Kiel at TPM Muckraker has a rundown on what we should expect next from Congress as the sunset of the PAA approaches later this week. Up until now, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) had refused to entertain any...
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Republican Obstructionism Blocks PAA Extension
The Republican Party just defeated cloture on the 30 day extension to the Protect America Act by a vote of 48-45. 60 votes were needed to win. The full roll call for the vote is here. As a result, there...
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Intel Bill Fails Cloture
This is very good, if somewhat expected, news. The Senate just defeated cloture on the bad Intelligence committee bill. The bill needed 60 votes, but only received 48 in favor, with 45 opposed. The full roll call is here. New...
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Lack of Collegiality Having An Impact in FISA Debate
Updated and bumped Last week I argued that the Senate Republicans had gone too far in their obstructionism on FISA, to the point that they were alienating their Democratic allies who have joined them on the wrong side of retroactive...
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Dodd on the Bush Presidency
This is from last Friday's speech and Senator Dodd is expected to speak shortly, but I still think this line is worth highlighting: The compromise between liberty and security remains a difficult one. But dismissing this case at the outset...
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Clinton Blasts Republican Obstructionism
The Clinton campaign has released a statement from Senator Clinton on her intention to vote against cloture on the Intelligence Committee's bad bill and her desire to see the Senate continue meaningful debate of the legislation at hand. Today, I...
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What Clinton and Obama Can Do Now
Now that we know both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will be in the Senate to vote against cloture on the Intelligence Committee bill, you might be wondering what else they can do, besides show up to cast the right...
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Clinton Will Vote "No" on Cloture Tomorrow
Jane Hamsher at FireDogLake has received confirmation from the Clinton campaign that Senator Clinton will be in the Senate to vote "no" to cloture on the bad Intelligence bill tomorrow. This is welcome news. Hopefully she will be able to...
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FISA FAX-a-thon
The good folks at FireDogLake are organizing a FISA FAX-a-thon, starting today and moving forward towards tomorrow afternoon's cloture vote on the bad Intelligence Committee bill. They've assembled a list of key senators to target, fax numbers to send to,...
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Tapping A Journalist's Phone
Via Christy Hardin Smith, Jeff Stein of CQ Politics has a must-read article of a prominent American journalist being eavesdropped by the government. Below is a lengthy excerpt of the piece, which leaves me very concerned about the ability of...
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Will Hillary Clinton Show Up Monday?
Matt Stoller at Open Left reports on a conversation he had with Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton yesterday in South Carolina on FISA. Stoller writes: I talked to Bill first, and asked him for help on the FISA fight. He...
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Chris Dodd Speaks Out Against Republican Obstructionism
This is from yesterday. Senator Chris Dodd lays into the Republican leadership for their obstructionist tactics and makes clear how unprecedented a situation the Republicans have brought us to in the Senate. Crooks & Liars has the full video...
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LiberalOasis Radio Show
I was a guest on Bill Scher's LiberalOasis Radio Show, which broadcasts on WHMP-AM in Western Massachusetts. Mostly we talked about the FISA fight in the Senate and what has happened during the Bush presidency to bring us to this...
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Obstructionism Could Cost the Republicans
I've never been one to see a lot of virtue in the Senate's traditions of collegiality across party lines. But now that the Republicans have so strongly cast their lot with obstructionist tactics for explicit partisan gain on the eve...
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Shorter Republican Party
This video is from this past fall, but remains a pretty good encapsulation of the arguments being put forth by George W. Bush and his Republican pals in the Senate. You can expect much of President Bush's State of...
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Meaningful Liability Protection
Kia Franklin at Tort Deform identifies the real effect of the Republicans demanding retroactive immunity for the big telecoms - making America less safe. Bush, Cheney, and executive administration officials have been saying in the past two days that if...
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How to Respond to Republican Obstructionism
Senator Russ Feingold put out this blistering statement in response to yesterday's Republican obstructionism on FISA legislation: "The conduct of Senate Republicans yesterday was shameless. After weeks of insisting that it is absolutely critical to finish the FISA legislation by...
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Dodd's Brief Explanation of Why We Oppose the Intel Committee Bill
Via Athenae at First Draft, here's an excerpt from Chris Dodd's floor speech today in opposition to the Intelligence Committee bill that explains clearly why he - and everyone who cares about the rule of law - should oppose the...
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Republican Obstructionism Slows Senate Debate
OK, so here's my understanding of where we stand in the Senate. The GOP has been delaying and trying to stop debate on amendments to the underlying bill, the Intelligence Committee bill, since they successfully tabled the SJC amendment. Republican...
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Get Your Bush Wiretap Ring Tone
More from CREDO Action at Myxer This is pretty cool, CREDO Mobile has released a free ring tone by Bush impersonator James Andomian. It just goes to show the value of having a progressive phone company that promotes the...
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FISA Voting & Amendments
The Senate just voted to table the Senate Judiciary Committee (Leahy) amendment to the Intel bill. This is a bad thing. By a vote of 60-34, where a simple majority of "nay" votes was needed, the Republicans and a handful...
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Russ Feingold Steps Up
Senator Russ Feingold, long an ally in the FISA fight, is stepping up today in the Senate with a raft of amendments that aim to protect Americans' civil liberties, stop warrantless wiretaps, ensure that the government is minimizing the number...
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Stop the Spying
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and People for the American Way have partnered to launch StopTheSpying.org. They're asking for people to submit photos or videos of themselves calling for the Senate to stop warrantless spying and retroactive immunity for telecom...
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More on Feinstein's "Good Faith" Amendment
Glenn Greenwald has more on Senator Feinstein's "Good Faith" Amendment and why it's both unnecessary and itself offered in bad faith: Telecoms already have immunity under existing FISA law. As long as they acted in good faith, they are already...
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FISA Fight Continues Today in the Senate
The Senate is set to resuming debating warrantless wiretapping reform legislation this morning at 9:30 AM Eastern. The first vote will likely be on the Leahy Amendment, which is a conversion of the Senate Judiciary Committee bill, which has very...
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Looking at Bad FISA Amendments
Robert Cruickshank has a great, in-depth post at the Courage Campaign looking at the expected amendment to be offered by Senator Dianne Feinstein of California and why progressives should reject it. Feinstein's amendment would have the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court...
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Dodd Will Filibuster
Senator Chris Dodd just released this statement on the pending warrantless wiretapping and retroactive immunity fight, via Tim Tagaris at Daily Kos. "Few things are more detrimental to this country than the erosion of and attack on the civil liberties...
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Here Comes the FISA Debate
Well, it now the word out of Washington is that the FISA debate will begin in the Senate tonight, though currently it doesn't look like votes will take place until tomorrow. My former coworker from the Dodd campaign, Tim Tagaris,...
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FISA Developments & Reading List
There's a lot going on related to FISA today. For starters, while it remains a possibility that the Senate will begin to address FISA tonight, tomorrow is looking more likely. We're also starting to get a clear picture of what...
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Huge Participation Brings Big Results
This is remarkable: CREDO Action members have sent so many emails to the presidential candidates in such a short period of time that we've shut down the Obama campaign's email servers! At last count, over 56,325 68,421 emails have been...
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A Short Timeline for the FISA Fight?
Paul Kiel at TPM Muckraker has an interesting update on the pending FISA fight. When [Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid] tried to get a thirty-day extension to that date last month, Republicans blocked it. So this morning he said on...
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What's more important to Clinton, McCain and Obama? Our Constitution, or their campaigns?
A very important debate will begin later this week in the Senate; will senators Clinton, McCain and Obama be there to defend our Constitution? Or will they stay out on the campaign trail, possibly leaving the Senate to shred the...
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Chris Dodd Will Keep Fighting FISA
We agree with Matt Stoller of Open Left - Chris Dodd deserves some serious thanks for continuing his pledge to filibuster the FISA bill, whether or not he's running for President....
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Dodd Takes a Moment
Open Left delivers us a video of Dodd's response to yesterday's activities: Give the guy a minute of your time. He talks of the "army" of supporters that had his back -- that's all of you. (He also mentions his...
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A Victory...For Now
We have tried to work through this process and it appears quite clear at this stage on this bill that we're not going to be able to do that...We are at the last few hours of the last few days...
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What The Heck Is Happening In The Senate?
Some of us may wonder -- hey, I wonder -- what is going on in the Senate? I don't mean this in some existential way. I'm not wondering by what mechanisms, progressive will is suppressed. I'm not asking whence has...
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Bitter Confrontation
Paul Krugman's column in today's New York Times contrasts the Edwards and Obama approach to healthcare in particular and politics in general, and through this contrast, Krugman makes a broader argument about the power dynamics that will influence how progressive...
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Filibuster Monday
The blogosphere is buzzing this morning in anticipation of a rare act: a Senator taking a strong stand for a core American value. That's right, the Dodd filibuster -- taking a stand that CREDO members have been arguing: no amnesty...
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What Would Josh Lyman Do?
Remember when the residents of our White House stood for something? Remember when they worked hard to be honest with the American people? And remember how that ended when the West Wing was canceled? Well, Josh Lyman (who has a...
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