No action still on FISA from House Democrats
By JR Hoeft | Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 | Catch-AllSeemingly content on allowing our national security to have a glaring vulnerability, House Democrats continue to stall taking any action on the Senate’s bill to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
“Unfortunately, as of late Tuesday night, the word is that House Democrats still are not ready to come forward with a fix to the mess they’ve created regarding the Terrorist Surveillance Program,” wrote U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA). “The safety and security of the United States or taking care of the trial lawyers – which will it be??? Americans await the Democrats’ decision, as their self-imposed deadline nears.”
Yesterday, 25 attorneys general from across the country, including Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell, implored the House to act:
“As Attorneys General, we are our states’ chief law enforcement officials and therefore responsible for taking whatever action is necessary to keep our citizens safe. With S. 2248 still pending in the House of Representatives, our national security is in jeopardy. We therefore urge the House of Representatives to schedule a vote and pass the FISA Amendments Act of 2007.”
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5 Responses to "No action still on FISA from House Democrats"
Here’s hoping you’re writing this same article a couple weeks from now, Jim.
BTW, while flipping channels a couple days back i found Enemy of the State was on, so i stopped and rewatched it. Amazing how much some of the positions from that 1998 film sound like what we are hearing now. Weird concidence warning: The birthday of the main antagonist of the film, John Voight’s NSA official, is noted as 9/11 – and this was in 1998.
i LOVE that film.
I love when people invoke fictional movies into political arguments.
Yes, but it was a good movie. So that makes it o.k. If it had been something with Angelina Jolie in it though, I’m sure we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
Kudos to the House Dems for standing up for the Constitution and the individual rights of all Americans.
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