law, did you abandon your support and faith in him then as well?
I'm getting pretty frustrated with the way so many people are quick to condemn and trash Obama over his statement on the upcoming FISA bill that will come before the Senate.
How many people know that President WJ Clinton supported expansion of FISA- ?
That he was instrumental in the same 'distruction' of our 4th Ammendment Rights?
Ya didn't? well neither did I- until I did what I believe a responsible person should do before passing judgement-
I looked for my information about the law myself.
Seven judges on a secret court have authorized all but one of over 7,500 requests to spy in the name of National Security. They meet in secret, with no published orders, opinions, or public record. Those spied on May never know of the intrusion. Now, Clinton has expanded the powers to include not only electronic, but physical searches.
The aftershock of the Oklahoma City bombing sent Congress scurrying to trade off civil liberties for an illusion of public safety. A good ten weeks before that terrible attack, however with a barely noticed pen stroke President Bill Clinton virtually killed off the Fourth Amendment when he approved a law to expand the already extraordinary powers of the strangest creation in the history of the federal judiciary.
Since its founding in 1978, a secret court created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA rhymes with ice -a) has received 7,539 applications to authorize electronic surveillance within the U.S. In the name of national security, the court has approved all but one of these requests from the Justice Department on behalf of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency. Each of these decisions was reached in secret, with no published orders, opinions, or public record. The people, organizations, or embassies spied on were not notified of either the hearing or the surveillance itself. The American Civil Liberties Union was not able to unearth a single instance in which the target of a FISA wiretap was allowed to review the initial application. Nor would the targets be offered any opportunity to see transcripts of the conversations taped by the government and explain their side of the story.
PLEASE take a few minutes out of your afternoon and read this-
http://mediafilter.org/CAQ/Caq53.court.htmlI don't believe we need FISA- we didn't when it was created in 78 we don't today. Trading our constitutional right to privacy for some kind of bogus promise of 'security' is a bad trade.
IMO
peace~