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Thursday, 18 October 2007
2007.10.18 Politics and National Defense Roundup

Quick hits:

  • Senate and Bush Agree On Terms of Spying Bill
  • The Democrats’ FISA debacle
  • Dems Go Off The Rails On FISA
  • Unfit to legislate; unfit to lead
    Paul Mirengoff: House Democrats have been forced to pull their proposed legislation to change the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) because they couldn't round up enough support among Dems who need the votes of non-liberals to be re-elected. You probably recall that the Democratic leadership was embarrassed two months ago when these same non-leftist Dems joined with Republicans to pass a temporary FISA fix so that our intelligence agencies could monitor the overseas communications of terrorists without obtaining a warrant. Still unwilling to provide the administration with the FISA fix it needs to ensure the gathering of information vital to the national security, the Democratic leadership has been slapped down again by members of its own caucus. ...

Posted by Bill Faith on October 18, 2007 at 12:06 AM | Permalink

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