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Senate Debates Competing BIlls Overseeing Surveillance Of Americans
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- don%u2019t think that I should be put in jeopardy, or my shareholders or consumers, [for being] a patriotic American."
A true patriot would have protected the rights of the citizens. Who is he trying to ***?
Posted by jtsbrown at 06:58 PM : Jan 24, 2008
Agreed!!
Bush wanted to be president in name only--to give him the opportunity to fill the family coffers!
His intention was never to be president of the US--his intention was to take over the world!
Lies and decite eventually bite you in the arse! - Reply to this comment
- They aren''''''''t wiretapping every call--only calls by suspected terrorists.
Posted by easeup
They most likely wiretapped all out of country calls!
Probably to add to the FBI''s 800,000 terrorist watch list--to which, they''ve done nothing with!
ATT and the rest were not served a court order to wire tap--they didn''t HAVE to!
I say let them have it!--We were paying for their services so they could turn around and spy on us?
Boy are we stupid! - Reply to this comment
- Democrats who voted sustain immunity for telecomes (table/defeat removal of immunity) in the bill now under consideration were:
Bayh (D-IN)
Carper (D-DE)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Landrieu (D-LA)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
We need more and better Democrats. - Reply to this comment
- The constution never left as it has alway been here, Just the bloody fools womt abide by it...Bush said it is a piece of godd@mnpaper..that he whined about. BUT HE HE TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE..WAS HE LYING JUST TO GET POWER THAT HE ABUSED
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- Why should they escape procecution there is no valid reason. When the goverment started twisting arms lawyers should have been hired they have the cash look at your bill.If they need to tap a phone and have a decent reason a judge will give them a OK. They were combing 1000''s of mail for specific words if they came up they dug deeper. Would love to see the list...
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- I hope Dodd continues his fillerbuster on this one we are lossing our rights really fast near the end of the idiots term and this is one we do not need to loose. if they listen aand get caught they need to be hung by the Gonads. The best of good byes frank bowers in ausin tx
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- This article is distorted. We demonize AT&T, but they were only acting under the orders of our government. The telecom companies aren''t at fault, the federal government is. I agree with granting immunity. The government wiretapping ordinary people without a warrent is clearly a violation of privacy. The government needs to be sued, not Verizon. Make the FBI defend their actions in front of a judge!
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- They aren''''t wiretapping every call--only calls by suspected terrorists. They have no interest in your calls home for rent money.
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Posted by easeup at 02:34 PM : Jan 24, 2008
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Right and they were telling us the Truth about Iraq too?? 935 TIMES!! ROFLMAO Anyone who believes even one word this piece of Human Trash say''s is brain dead!! Sieg Heil Bush! - Reply to this comment
- They aren''''t wiretapping every call--only calls by suspected terrorists.
Posted by easeup
In that case they need to wire tap all republican Congressman.
(former Republican Congressman Mark Deli Siljander was charged with giving money to "charities" which support al Qaeda) (CBS/AP) January 16th, 2008 - Reply to this comment
- Posted by bobnjersey at 03:28 PM
We also come to learn that the illegal wire tapping began before Sept. 11, 2001. If it was to prevent a terrorist attack it was a miserable failure. Furthermore, the phone companies were more than willing to go along with breaking the law. They should be held responsible. - Reply to this comment
- Alright the jokes over let''s bring back the Constitution.
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- Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., said the legislation providing immunity to telecoms was to protect them from lawsuits he dubbed "frivolous."
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Tex., said telecoms are unable to defend themselves in court because the government has prevented them from releasing documents pertaining to surveillance, and so they should be protected from class action lawsuits.
She told of one telecom''s CEO who told her, "''I don%u2019t think that I should be put in jeopardy, or my shareholders or consumers, [for being] a patriotic American."
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it is not for Congress to decide what is a frivolous lawsuit - but the courts.
and yes Sen Hutchison your shareholders should be in jeopardy, what a choice, the Constitution or her portfolio - gives a whole new dimension to "give me liberty or give me death."
are these people for real? besides I thought these companies were just going after real terrorist - why all this concern? I really doubt a terrorist will be able to win a court case given the bias towards security. what are they so afraid of??? makes you wonder huh. - Reply to this comment
- Hello What makes ye think that bas***** is not listening to yer calls..He got his finger on every body..I use to tell my room mate the nanny govt will know when we use the loo..the bloody control bas*****..
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- I thought it was common knowledge by now that this "Administration" is determined to erode our liberty. From Republic to Democracy to Dictatorship -throughout history, that''s how it''s always been. If people won''t see the handwriting on the wall, then they deserve the inevitable result.....and it will be inevitable and and it will be irrevocable in our lifetimes. God help us all. Oh, that''s right, they don''t even want us to mention God, do they?
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- [They aren''''t wiretapping every call--only calls by suspected terrorists. They have no interest in your calls home for rent money.]
[Posted by easeup at 02:34 PM : Jan 24, 2008]
how do you know that ... because they said so?
before this was leaked you didn''t know anything ... for all intents and purpose they weren''t listening in on anybody.
anyone who believes these ''deceivers'' are fools. history would tell you that a thousand times over. - Reply to this comment
- "Stop wiretapping every call an American makes Mr. Bush. "
They aren''t wiretapping every call--only calls by suspected terrorists. They have no interest in your calls home for rent money. - Reply to this comment
Re: "Vice President *** Cheney, in a speech before a conservative think tank, warned that if telecoms were not given immunity for past surveillance, they would hesitant to assist the government in the future, and is vital "to help us prevent another 9/11 down the road."
Is Shotgun ******** indicating that he may stage another attack, if he can not illegally spy on Americans with impunity?- Reply to this comment
- The Democrates better do something about this instead of the regular "cave in" they always pull.
If they did nothing wrong why is the Bush White House pushing for immunity from lawsuits against telecommunication companies? What are they trying to hide. If they broke the law they should be responsible for their actions. Just like anyone else would have to be. This is just getting crazy anymore.
Do not allow immunity for these companies. If Congress does allow immunity, then they need to grant it to everyone that broke the law.
If Bush broke the law, then he needs to be held responsible too! - Reply to this comment
- Three cheers for for Senator Dodd! Do not let the telephone companies get any immunity. None Zip! What Bush and those companies did was against the law and they knew it. No Immunity under any circumstances!!!!! Stop wiretapping every call an American makes Mr. Bush. Stop the Bush/Cheney anniliation of our Constitutional rights - don''t pass this bill!
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- "Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. The cause of liberty, the cause of American, cannot succeed with any lesser effort."
-- President John F. Kennedy, January 29, 1961 - Reply to this comment
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