Constitutional expert: FISA bill 'is an evisceration of the Fourth Amendment'

Constitutional expert: FISA bill 'is an evisceration of the Fourth Amendment'

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Turley_FISA_bill_is_evisceration_of_0619.html

"Never appease political bullies, President Bush admonished at the Israeli Knesset," MSNBC's Keith Olbermann opened. "Oddly, House Democrats chose to ignore him on the subject of dealing with him."

Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley sees a "very frightening bill" in a proposed "compromise," currently in the House, that would update the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to effectively grant immunity from civil lawsuits to telecommunications companies that agreed to spy on their customers as part of the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program, starting shortly before the World Trade Center attacks in 2001. If the White House asked a phone company to spy with its assurance that it was legal, the measure says, that's enough to dismiss a case.

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Get the rest of the story here and watch the interview:

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Turley_FISA_bill_is_evisceration_of_0619.html

The bill has already passed in the House, but not the Senate.

http://www.eff.org/action/no-false-compromises

http://cdt.org/action/snooping/

 Hopefully you all understand that this has NOT passed the Senate yet (which it must do in order for the President to sign it into law). So, if you're not happy with this, I strongly urge you to contact BOTH of your Senators using the links given above - QUICKLY. Pete