FISA

Published: July 28, 2007, 2:53 pm

Tags: nation, civil liberties, security, politics

Let’s see–AG Gonzales has been testifying to Congress this week and there’s a bit of a controversy about the TSP (the NSA wiretapping thing) and now Bush wants FISA ‘updated’. Here’s Bush: “Our intelligence community warns that under the current statute, we are missing a significant amount of foreign intelligence that we should be collecting to protect our country,” Bush said. “Congress needs to act immediately to pass this bill, so that our national security professionals can close intelligence gaps and provide critical warning time for our country.” This might even be true, but if the administration is unwilling to completely talk about the current program why does he think it should be allowed to be expanded? Republicans, of course, will go along, but here’s a place that Democrats can do something. At the very least, they should do nothing as long as the administration continues to stonewall all the

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