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9/13/2006
12:23:00 pm EDT
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Senate Republicans Block Democratic Attempts To Amend Wiretapping Program
Author: AP Source: Fox News
Title: SENATE REPUBLICANS BLOCK DEMOCRATIC ATTEMPTS TO AMEND WIRETAPPING PROGRAM
Senate Republicans blocked Democratic attempts to rein in President Bush's domestic wiretapping program Wednesday amid a sustained White House campaign to give the administration broad authority to monitor, interrogate and prosecute terrorism suspects.
While refusing to give the president a blank check to prosecute the War on Terror, Republicans in the Senate Judiciary Committee kept to the White House's condition that a bill giving legal status to the surveillance program pass unamended.
By voice vote and roll calls, Republicans defeated Democratic amendments to insert a one-year expiration date into the bill and require the National Security Agency to report more often to Congress on the standards for its domestic surveillance program.
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| The Powers Of The Executive... | Sep 13th. at 11:04:33 pm EDT
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J & V Enterprises (Sweetwater, Tennessee) - Email Me
are strictly limited to those enumerated in the Constitution. The entirety of the rule of law of this nation flows only from that one source. The blatent flaunting of utter disregard for the rule of law and the principles embodied in our Constitution is the hallmark of this administration, and also what history shall remember of them.
One thing that also needs to be made abundantly clear here is that this is an issue primarily dealing with intelligence agencies which should be quite apart from the law enforcement agencies. I grant that the two can be quite effectively and powerfully combined, but there are many inherent problems with doing so. The most glaring example of a succesful integration of the intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies was performed by the communist government of East Germany. These amalgams of power are one of the absolute enemies of a free society.
The proper role of an intelligence agency is to obtain and analyze information about individuals and organization that are not citizens or entities of their own nation. The proper role of law enforcement agencies is to enforce laws that have been legally enacted after a crime has been committed. The delusion that law enforcement can actually prevent crime again leads to an amalgam of intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies. The most apt term that I know of to describe such an abomination to our liberty is 'thought police.'
The rules under which our law enforcement agencies operate that require a warrent before search, wire tap, arrest, or seizure of property (other than in blantant cases) encompases almost the entirety of the 'tool kit' needed by law enforcement to effectively carry out the role that it fulfills in our society. Almost, if not, all jurisdictions including the FISA court have a duty magistrate that rotates among the judges assigned to that court or circuit who are required to be available around the clock to issue warrants in a timely manner.
This adminstration does not seek the power to prevent anything, it seeks the power of a police state.
Jason
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| WWBFD? | Sep 13th. at 6:55:08 pm EDT
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Swiftly Flying Raven (Redding, California) - Email Me
The Founding Fathers of the USA were very wise people. Re: security, I turn to Benjamin Franklin for inspiration: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin, 1759. I can't vouch for the veracity of the quote, having not found it in my personal reading of Franklin's works, but it sure seems like something he'd say!
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