What is it that Nancy is personally worried our intelligence agencies might overhear? DannoJyd on February 18, 2008 at 6:44 AM

Maybe concern over the seating arrangements at the wedding?

So these “evil-doers” await Bush’s retirement from office. Now they seem to be served cake from our Congress, conspiring as they waited for our legal defense to melt.

It is terrorist logic to create havoc during major political campaigns, destruction timed immediately preceding election day. Most people crumble under pressure. Remember Spain. Look at America’s democratic voter turn-out for primaries overwhelming republicans in number. Whether something is planned to happen immediately before, or as with GWB immediately after an election, something is planned to happen. Whether we know it or not is the matter at stake.

This general election will determine not only our immediate fate and survival as a movement within a party, but our survival as a nation. E pluribus unum needs to reference our determined will to preserve our Constitution that parented our American Liberty.

If FISA matters, contact your Congressmen and Senators who do the voting. It is not right to leave the onus on the President or presidential candidates when the required vote is CONGRESSIONAL.

Political donations from the trial lawyers are more important to the Democrats than security from terrorist attacks.

The true cause for blocking the bill was the Senate-passed retroactive immunity from lawsuits for private telecommunications firms asked to eavesdrop by the government.

66 trial lawyers representing plaintiffs in the telecommunications suits have contributed $1.5 million to Democratic senators and causes. Of the 29 Democratic senators who voted against the FISA bill last Tuesday, 24 took money from the trial lawyers (as did two absent senators, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama). Eric A. Isaacson of San Diego, one of the telecommunications plaintiff’s lawyers, contributed to the recent unsuccessful presidential campaign of Sen. Chris Dodd, who led the Senate fight against the bill containing immunity.

http://townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2008/02/18/torts_and_terrorism

Till they remove head [A] from anus [B] & come back to reality [C].

Yeah I noticed it too. Couldn’t say for sure but looked like an affliction….could be nerves I guess.

Limerick on February 17, 2008 at 7:12 PM

I hope I’m wrong but it reminded me of my late Mother, she had Parkinson’s…

Limerick on February 17, 2008 at 7:12 PM

An affliction maybe. It was so pronounced that I was wondering about that. But affliction or not, it seemed to be Wallace’s question that set it off. Struck too close to home, I’m thinking.

petefrt on February 17, 2008 at 7:09 PM

Yeah I noticed it too. Couldn’t say for sure but looked like an affliction….could be nerves I guess.

If you are curious as to what the House did by allowing the FISA legislation expire, that the ACLU celebrated, really means…take a listen to the Director of National Intelligence. Thanks to Hot Air for the video.Partial Transcript:WALLACE: I want …

Excellent rundown of how the Democrats have made our country less safe by allowing FISA to lapse from the Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, who, as he pointed out in the interview, has worked with both parties in various intelligence …

Who’s the hyper animated entertainment correspondent on Fox and Friends that reports from London? Strickland must be his twin.

The Dems, the liberal left and the MSM have given aid and comfort to the enemy for the last four forty years. Why would they stop now?

Travis1 on February 17, 2008 at 5:37 PM

Needed fixin’

Forty years. That’s about how long Ted Kennedy has been in office.

The first bullet point says that the PPA accounts for changes in technology, and excuses the government from the need “to obtain a court order to collect foreign intelligence information against a target located overseas.” To me, a target doesn’t suggest mass signals capture. It suggests an identifiable person of interest.

The White House fact sheet also says:

The Act clarifies that the definition of electronic surveillance in FISA shall not be construed to encompass surveillance directed at a person reasonably believed to be located outside the U.S. This clarification restores FISA to its original intent and means intelligence professionals will not have to go to court in order to collect foreign intelligence on an overseas target who may be planning to attack the U.S.

Again, that language suggests a specific target, not mass signals capture.

I did a Google search on “Protect America Act + mass signals capture” and got only one return: This thread!

If you’re right about this, it’s a point the White House should make clearly and explicitly, because it’s a strong one.

MirCat

And now everyone refers to pro-abortion, gun-control, big-government, pro-union Adolf as “right-wing”.

MirCat

…and after Hitler they moved on in even greater numbers to Stalin admiration.

Topsecretk9 on February 17, 2008 at 6:01 PM

Remember, in the 30’s the left loved Hitler.

- The Cat

The Democrats characterizing him as a partisan are aware of his history and yet they’re misstating it. What else, then, are they misstating? Pretty much everything.

Ever notice yesterdays evil Hitler nazi is the lefts hero today and visa versa?

If anyone says anything contrary to the lefts pet belief of the day, they are instantly characterized as an evil criminal to be destroyed and when a sworn enemy happens to agree with their supplied narrative du jour they are instantly elevated to unquestionable hero status.

i.e. If General Betrayus were to disagree with Bush on some important aspect his “expert” and “hero” credentials would be instantly restored.

If so, that’s a point even the White House doesn’t make.

Yeah they do. First bullet point and first point in how the law modernizes FISA.