Extensive Media Coverage
According to a post on Wired.com:
Leading House Democrats introduced the so-called RESTORE Act (.pdf) Tuesday that allows the nation’s spies to maintain permanent eavesdropping stations inside United States switching centers. Telecom and internet experts interviewed by Wired News say the bill will give the NSA legal access to a torrent of foreign phone calls and internet traffic that travels through American soil on its way someplace else.
I’m confused. Where is the extensive media coverage about how democrats are violating our constitutional rights?
October 12th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
The key phrase here is that the bill would give the NSA “LEGAL” access. Many people, including me, weren’t concerned about the notion of whether it was a good idea to effectively use wire-taps, but rather if it was legal. Having it on the books means that the nation’s representatives have spoken for their people and put it into law. A President deciding that it is legal without said legistlation is acting above the law and principles set forth in the constitution.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
I don’t want to read the entire bill- does this let them eavesdrop on US citizens or not? It sounds like not from that blurb, but it’s ambiguous.
October 15th, 2007 at 9:57 am
The ACLU writes:
Where is the outrage? Where is the democratic demands that congress respect our civil rights? Why has the MSM including the NYTimes failed to run front page stories on how the Democrats are violating our rights?
Something sure smells fishy. I sure hope you guys have the integrity to admit its seems odd how quiet the MSM is when democrats pass laws to protect allowing the government to eavesdrop without a warrant on US citizens.
Sometimes you just have to have the good sense to judge the press as biased towards the left.