Keith Olbermann covers the breaking showdown between President Bush and Congress. Can you believe that Mr. One-Full-Year-Of-My-Eight-Years-In-Office-Was-Spent-On-Vacation is complaining about Congress   more...taking their August break instead of giving him the rubber stamp he’s looking for his wiretapping program? Note the playing of the fear card. Jonathan Turley joins Keith and tries to make sense in this Bizarro World confrontation, and the complicit Congress isn’t spared his scorn.  less

Proposed changes to FISA

Obama's vote for FISA leads supporters to doubt his promises

President Bush signed a bill Thursday that overhauls rules about government eavesdropping and grants immunity to telecommunications companies that helped the U.S. spy on Americans in suspected terrorism   more...cases. (July 10)  less

President Bush said Wednesday that he will soon sign a bill that overhauls the rules on secret government eavesdropping and grants immunity to telecommunications companies that helped. (July 9)

Michael Ratner : New bill extends powers of president and grants immunity for past wrongs

In this video I talk about my disappointment over Barack Obama’s decision to vote for the FISA bill and to expand President Bush’s office of faith-based initiatives. Although I will vote for Barck Obama   more...over John McCain, I cannot do any more volunteer work for his campaign or contribute any more money until Barack Obama renounces his FISA vote and gets rid of Bush’s un-Constitutional Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. I also think that the only way that we will ever be able to remove the stain of the Bush years is to charge him and his criminal gang with war crimes and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law, but that’s probably never going to happen, but I can dream! I also talk about my Burley flat-bed bike trailer with which I do all of my grocery shopping, I am committed to avoiding the high price of gas.

Was Obama’s FISA vote “calculated”?-
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/07/10/obama_fisa/
Obama pledges to expand aid to religious charities-
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-campaign2-2008jul02,0,1813376.story
Obama: Expand faith-based programs-
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-07-01-obama-faith_N.htm
Bush kept Cheney FBI interview on Plame from Congress-
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_9903256?source=rss
Rep.Waxman threatens Attorney General Mukasey with contempt over Cheney’s FBI interview on CIA leak probe-
http://www.startribune.com/politics/24076159.html?location_refer=Politically%20Connected
Burley Flatbed Bike Trailer info-
http://www.burley.com/products/adventure/flatbed.cfm
http://www.healthchecksystems.com/burley_flatbed_bicycle_trailer.htm  less

Congress considered final passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) this week.

American News Project follows the money trail to find out how telecom dollars influence Congressmen to say   more...what they say and vote the way they do.  less

Oppose FISA Snoop Bill You?re a 911 was an Inside Job Tinfoil Hatter

Supreme Court Strikes Down DC Handgun Ban. Addington, Yoo Offer Little In House Torture Hearing. As Oil Hits Another Record High, A Look at the New Geopolitics of Energy.

Check out Congressman Wexler’s call for impeachment hearings-
http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com/

Call The White House (202) 456-1111
U.S. Capitol switchboard (202) 224-3121

President Bush perpetuates his   more...reign of terror and continues this illegal war in Iraq as he shreds the Constitution and the Bill of Rights here at home. I don’t blame the Troops for what Bush has ordered them to do. They have to follow orders and have no choice in where or when they serve. After all that our Troops have suffered through and sacrificed, we need to make sure that they receive the benefits they deserve. We need to reinstate the G.I. Bill so that our returning Vets can go to school and buy a decent home. There are too many Veterans who are returning to the United States and finding themselves homeless.  less

Congresswoman Harlan expounds on the manner in which Bush's Surveillance activities managed to get an extension passed, using a bad intel & rumor there was a case involving an attack on the Capitol.

master of puppets, metallica, fox news, rupert murdoch, fisa court, richard nixon, surveillance, zeitgeist, bill oreilly, michelle malkin

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/08/04/democrats/
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/03/fisa.upgrade.ap/index.html
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1518583   more...
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/08/05/house-passes-bushs-fisa-law-american-civil-liberties-destroyed/

I AM SO EFFIN’ PISSED! I cannot believe that these gutless Democrats, a party that I have supported faithfully with MY time, MY sweat, and MY money, is rolling over for President Bush and giving him license to TRASH the Constitution! Below are listed the members of the Democratic party who have betrayed OUR TRUST and they should be opposed in the next Democratic primary. They work for us! We didn’t send then to Washington D.C. to ‘Go Along’ with this War Criminal President!
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or (FISA) was a system that allowed a President to use all the resources that he or she needed to combat terrorism, with a judge overseeing the program and issuing a WARRANT. The President could have listened in on who-ever he wanted to for 3 days but it was required that he GET a WARRANT from a FISA JUDGE! It is the only oversight that we had on this out-of-control- President and it created a paper trail that guaranteed that the Presidnet WAS NOT listening in on AMERICAN CITIZEN’S PHONE CONVERSATIONS AND VIOLATING OUR RIGHT TO PRIVACY AS PROVIDED FOR IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS!
President Bush has been illegally wiretapping from 2001 to the present, instead of bringing charges of impeachment for high crimes, THESE Democratic party member voted to GIVE President Bush the law that he wanted, that retroactively made all of his domestic spying crimes LEGAL. I expect this treachery from the Bush administration, but to have MY Democratic Senators and Congressmen CAVE IN TO THIS PRESIDENT’S ILLEGAL DEMANDS TO REWRITE THE FISA LAW IS INEXCUSABLE!

These are the 16 Democratic Senators who supported President Bush’s RAPING of the Bill of Rights. They voted FOR Bush’s amendments to the FISA law.

1) Evan Bayh- Jr Senator from Indiana
2) Tom Carper- Jr Senator from Delaware
3) Bob Casey- Jr Senator from Pennsylvania
4) Kent Conrad- Sr Senator from North Dakota
5) Dianne Feinstein- Sr Senator from California
6) Daniel Inouye- Sr Senator from Hawaii
7) Amy Klobuchar- Jr Senator from Minnesota
8) Mary Landrieu- Sr Senator from Louisiana
9) Blanche Lincoln- Sr Senator from Arkansas
10) Claire McCaskill- Jr Senator from Missouri
11) Barbara Mikulski- Sr Senator from Maryland
12) Bill Nelson- Sr Senator from Florida
13) Ben Nelson- Jr Senator from Nebraska
14) Mark Pryor- Jr Senator from Arkansas
15) Ken Salazar- Jr Senator from Colorado
16) Jim Webb- Jr Senator from Virginia

Every Republican Senator who voted, voted in favor of Bush’s amendments to the FISA law.

These are the 41 Democratic Party House of Representatives, these Congressmen and women voted to let President Bush subvert the RULE OF LAW!

1) Congressman Jason Altmire from Pennsylvania's 4th district
2) Congressman John Barrow from Georgia’s 12th district
3) Congresswoman Melissa Bean from Illinois's 8th district
4) Congressman Dan Boren from Oklahoma's 2nd district
5) Congressman Leonard Boswell from Iowa’s 3rd district
6) Congressman Alan Boyd Jr. from Florida's 2nd district
7) Congressman Chris Carney from Pennsylvania's 10th district
8) Congressman Ben Chandler from Kentucky's 6th district
9) Congressman Jim Cooper from Tennessee's 5th district
10) Congressman Jim Costa from California's 20th district
11) Congressman Robert Cramer from Alabama's 5th district
12) Congressman Henry Cuellar from Texas's 28th district
13) Congressman Artur Genestre Davis from Alabama's 7th district
14) Congressman Lincoln Davis from Tennessee's 4th district
15) Congressman Joe Donnelly from Indiana's 2nd district
16) Congressman Chet Edwards from Texas’s 17th district
17) Congressman Brad Ellsworth  less

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