SUBJECT: FISA Capitulation – Again

DATE: 12-Feb-2008

Today marks another milestone in the great decline and fall of the United States as a nation, the Rule of Law, and the Constitution. You are personally responsible.

There must be some reason to grant the unprecedented gift of retro-active legalization of previously illegal acts. There is no national popular outcry to shield Bush and these corporations. Is it supine fealty to the worst president in US history? It cannot be based on respect for your oath of office to protect the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. In fact, you have just shown yourself to be the kinds of actual “enemies” to be guarded against.

Perhaps it is money?

Telecom Contributions by Senator (Open Secrets, 2003 to 2008 Sector Totals)

Feinstein $638,084
Nelson $427,556
Rockerfeller $341,569
Mccaskill $351,232
Mikulski $253,192
Landrieu $244,908
Lincoln $298,420
Salazar $611,517
Carper $197,513
Webb $278,636
Whitehouse $294,675
Leiberman $1,005,591

TOTAL: $4,942,893

Really people – this is a ridiculously cheap price for them to pay for this kind of sell out. Not only does your work dishonor the rule of law, your price for doing so is an embarrassment to capitalism – except for Leiberman – good job Joe!

Of course, a special place in hell is reserved for Harry Reid, without whose bold leadership, none of this would be possible. Among you all, Senator Dodd seems the only one with the character and conviction to behave responsibly in this sordid affair.

Pathetic at all levels, your place in our darkest history is secure. I hope it was worth it.

Very, very faint, though. I’ll be quite a bit older than I am now…

That’s what I get for proof reading the kid’s homework and responding at the same time!

I’m sure the insurance industry is doing a dance over FISA! It’s a harvest day for identity protect – so they think!

Intelligence agencies have admitted to the fact that meta data gathering is much like trying to drink out of a fire hydrant. So a great deal of our private information lays vulnerable without any guarantee of security for “the people” by the government on behalf of the government. There are no clear provisions with FISA that protect my private information. If there are no regulatory measures to insure my privacy and protection of my private information, then I am NOT SAFE OR SECURE. I am in a more threatening position actually.

A good read:

http://www.consumeraffairs.com…..iot01.html

The reason I shared my identity theft experience is that it is one people can relate to and puts the fear card in a different light…Sunlight…

That immunity would apply both to future lawsuits and to any suits filed during the period from September 11, 2001, to January 17, 2007, the day the Justice Department announced that the secret NSA program would be revamped and brought under the scrutiny of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

Then I guess we’ll just have to invent time travel so we can go back and file between January ‘01, when the cause of action began, and September 10 of that year. Get busy techies!

This is NOT for national security – or the Feds would not have let the funding for wiretaps lapse, nor can it make us more secure, the more corporate lawlessness is encouraged, the less secure we will be – witness the identity theft scenario above. The corporations will just thrive on this get-out-of-jail-free environment. Unfortunately, it will be thriving dens of inequity.