White House Writes Pre-Emptive Signing Statement on Exclusivity
A summary of the Mukasey/McConnell letter to Congress.
More FISA Debate
More FISA debate, just trying to keep discrete threads.
FISA Debate Liveblog
Three amendments up, no votes today. The first two Feingold amendments prohibit bulk collection and reverse targeting. The third, with Dodd, is immunity.
Feingold on Reverse Targeting
Director of Intelligence has testified that reverse targeting is violation of 4th amendment.
Notes Senator from GA has said reverse targeting is possible.
[Placing declassified documents in record]
This confirms that when FBI has interest in American, up to FBI whether to seek a warrant.
Doesn't Hillary Have Anything Better to Do?
In a matter of 22 hours, Hillary has had two campaign events that are only tangentially about the fact that almost half of all delegates will be awarded today. Yesterday, she once again very generously offered to unilaterally decide to reinterpret our Clusterfuck vote, all in the name of democracy. And today, smack dab in the middle of the biggest election day this side of November 4, Hillary has challenged Obama
Jello Jay Advocates Illegal Spying on Americans
In his opposition to a Feingold FISA amendment designed to remove any incentive the government has to abuse the new FISA program, Jello Jay sanctions the illegal collection of US person data.
More Cable News
John Robb comments on the telecommunications outages in the Middle East.
Russ Feingold: We Need to Protect Americans from John Bolton
Russ Feingold made a pretty good argument today. We need to add protections for American privacy to the FISA bill to protect them from John Bolton's "intellectual curiosity."
On What Terms Will this Administration Spy on Americans?
You all are chatty and I'm tired, so I'm going to leave you here with this great YouTube that Selise made.
FISA Liveblog
Reid is on the floor talking about what votes we'll have tomorrow:ImmunitySubstitutionExclusivityArgh. This means we won't have 60 there for exclusivity.
FISA Fight Reconvenes at 2
You've got just under an hour to convince your Senator to vote the right way on FISA.
Dick's Big Stick and the Democratic Alpha Male
In his rush to find a problem with the manly men Democrats have been electing of late, Ryan Lizza seems to have forgotten a number of long-serving Congressmen.
The Next Mujahadeen?
Walter Pincus finds a troubling appropriation in the Defense Appropriation this year: $75 million dollars for what sounds like early Special Forces intervention in Pakistan's tribal lands.
Cable News
This is a thread for speculating wildly why Egypt and Pakistan have lost much of their connectivity.
Ground Game
The story still missing from almost all coverage of the election is the ground game.
Don't Worry, Isikoff Says, DC Is Not Corrupt and Dishonest
Because Isikoff is not part of that corrupt and dishonest culture at all!!
The Watchdog's Watchdog
The CIA Director has conjured up a brilliant way to prevent the CIA's Inspector General from actually effecting any good: requiring him to report to CIA officers the process and results of investigations.
Doolittle's Payoff
How much money do you think Republican Congressmen had to pay John Doolittle to encourage the scandal-plagued Congressman to retire after this term?
All the News That's Not Fit to Print
Two stories the NYT didn't print are in the news this week.
Richard Clarke to Bush: Stop Fear-Monger to Take Away Civil Liberties
Richard Clarke slams Bush for his fear-mongering. And then he reminds that Bush refused to take precautions when it would have mattered--before 9/11.
FISA Update
Apparently, Reid has brokered a Unanimous Consent agreement that everyone, from Feingold and Dodd to Jeff "Mutual Defense" Sessions, have bought off on.
Using cboldt's rough draft of what we've got, here are which amendments remain under consideration and how many votes they need to pass:Four amendments will pass automatically, with the adoption of the Unanimous Consent agreement.
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