Senator Chambliss Says There's No Reason To Debate FISA Amendments Act; Just Pass It
from the unconstitutional dept
We've been covering in great detail the FISA Amendments Act, which is likely to be renewed before the end of the year. As you may recall, this was the "law" that expanded the ability of federal law enforcement to warrantlessly wiretap Americans -- and then, thanks to a secret interpretation appears to be used to scoop up tons of information on Americans, despite appearing to be limited to only foreign communications. As we noted recently, a former judge has made a pretty compelling case why the whole thing is completely unconstitutional. While Senator Wyden has put a hold on the renewal of the FAA, he's also said he'll lift the hold if the Senate will consider some important amendments and actually debate the law.And yet... that might not happen. Senator Saxby Chambliss, apparently with no regard to the Constitution or the privacy of the public he's supposed to represent, has apparently complained that any debate is a waste of time after Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to bring up the issue.
Reid wanted S. 3276 to be considered with a limited number of amendments, but Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) objected and said he didn’t understand why the Senate couldn’t just pass the House FISA bill. He referred to a letter stating that the Obama administration supports the House-version.So, apparently, as long as the White House wants to trample on Americans' 4th Amendment Rights, and there's a House version that was passed because Representatives misrepresented or lied about what was in the bill, the Senate should just approve it? Yikes. We deserve better. We should absolutely demand that Congress debate this issue, and not rubber stamp it.
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Filed Under: 4th amendment, debate, fisa, fisa amendments act, privacy, ron wyden, saxby chambliss
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That's why we're trying to get the Georgia Pirate Party going.
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that chambliss POS better not find himself in a dark alley with me, 'cause even though i'm old and feeble, one of us ain't comin' out of that alley in one piece... fucker
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
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I would have thought the answer was obvious. The answer is to rubber stamp the wants of all the special interests. (You know the ones that pad the pockets of the congressmen and senators.
After all, while congress has an extremely low approval rating, they are overwhelmingly re-elected term after term, so they know they don't need to serve the people.
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Now that at least one senator has indicated that he in in no way, shape, or form interested in debating on the act(and given their collective actions in the past, I would be massively surprised if he's the only one to hold that view/position), I can only hope Senator Wyden has the guts to stand by his earlier decision, and maintains the hold on the act renewal, hopefully killing the heinous thing.
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Maybe Chambliss should ask his buddy Paul Broun about science
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The NSA will still continue it's unconstitutional actions, but at least it will not be under cover of a bad law.
But just watch the statists will not allow that to happen.
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spy camera pen
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Already Contacted both of my Senators
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It takes research but one could decide not to buy products from firms involved in supporting such spying.
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US senators are paid an annual salary of $174,000.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't really think Senator Chambliss really needs all that bribe money. $174,000/year ought to be plenty, don't you think?
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1) who the hell thought of Saxby Chambliss for a name? whoever it was has a real sense of humour and lack of care over the amount of piss taking that must have ensued
2)before everyone goes along with this idiot, let him be the subject of a year long series of wire taps, surveillance, tracking, listening in, reading, make it all public and see how he likes it then
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Authoritarian Regimes
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What horrible logic. Under this line of reasoning, we could wipe out democracy all together. There's no reason to campaign; Just have the elections. There's no reason to have an election; Just keep the incumbent. What if he dies? His children are heirs to his seat in that case. Wasn't that tried before and failed miserably?
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Congress doesn't dare..
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