"House hides Israeli telecom spying, permits ‘classified’ FISA evidence"
"House ‘classified annex’ provision added to FISA bill ‘Report on Bush Surveillance Program’ effectively allows retroactive lawsuit immunity for Israeli wiretapping espionage technology used by federal agents in 50 states & U.S. Capitol.
105 Democrats join 188 Republicans to disregard evidence of Israeli spying on American hard-line, cell phone, fax, instant message and email accounts prior to September 11 attacks to present. Senate debates FISA retroactive telecom amnesty this week, could connect Israel to foreign telecom spying documented by French intelligence, Fox News.
Did a House member cover up Israeli bomb threat while Director of Navy anti-terrorism?
READ MORE http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/HouseHidesIsraeliTelSpying.htm"
Please see: The Israeli Spy Ring
Israeli Spying: The Mother of all Scandals
Now for the shit press:
"Senate OK's expanded wiretap power; Measure also gives telecoms immunity" by Eric Lichtblau, New York Times News Service | July 10, 2008
WASHINGTON - The Senate gave final approval yesterday to a major expansion of the government's surveillance powers, handing President Bush another victory in a series of hard-fought clashes with Democrats over national security issues.
The measure, approved by a vote of 69 to 28, marks the biggest restructuring of federal surveillance law in 30 years. It includes a divisive element that Bush had deemed essential: legal immunity for the phone companies that cooperated in the National Security Agency wiretapping program he approved after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Ummm, yeah, except Bush's Wiretapping Began BEFORE 9/11!! and the New York Times Admits Bush Administration Spying Began in December of 2000... BEFORE TAKING OFFICE!
The New York Times' Tool Continues to Lie About Bush's Spying
And if they CONTINUE to LIE, well.... can't believe a word they say, can you?
Bush, appearing in the Rose Garden just after his return from Japan, called the vote "long overdue." He promised to quickly sign the measure into law, saying it was critical to national security and showed that "even in an election year, we can come together and get important pieces of legislation passed."
Yeah, when it furthers the road to tyranny. Thanks, Demo-fucking-craps!!!
Even as his political stature has waned, Bush has managed to maintain his dominance on national security issues over a Democratic-led Congress. He has beat back efforts to cut troops and financing in Iraq, and he has won important victories on issues like interrogation tactics and military tribunals in the fight against terrorism.
That's what dictators do!
Debate over the surveillance law was the one area where Democrats had held firm in opposition.
HA!
House Democrats went so far as to allow a temporary surveillance measure to expire in February, leading to a five-month impasse and prompting allegations from Bush that the nation's defenses against another strike by Al Qaeda had been weakened.
But in the end Bush won out, as administration officials helped forge a deal between Republican and Democratic leaders that included almost all the major elements the White House wanted. The measure gives the executive branch broader latitude in eavesdropping on people abroad and at home who it believes are tied to terrorism, and it reduces the role of a secret intelligence court in overseeing some operations.
Supporters maintained that the plan includes enough safeguards to protect Americans' civil liberties, including reviews by several inspectors general. There is nothing to fear in the bill, said Senator Christopher S. Bond, a Republican of Missouri who was a lead negotiator, "unless you have Al Qaeda on your speed dial."
Then you guys will be heading over to Langley, right?
The final plan, which restructures the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act passed by Congress in 1978 in the wake of Watergate, reflected both political reality and legal practicality, supporters said.
Pfffffft!
Wiretapping orders approved by secret orders under the previous version of the surveillance law were set to begin expiring in August unless Congress acted. Heading into their political convention in Denver next month and on to the November congressional elections, many Democrats were wary of handing the Republicans a potent political weapon.
So they rolled over, puckered-up, and SPREAD 'EM!
Seriously, what good are DemocraPs?
The issue put Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, in a particularly precarious spot. He had long opposed giving legal immunity to the phone companies that took part in the NSA's wiretapping program, even threatening a filibuster during his run for the nomination. But yesterday, he ended up voting for what he called "an improved but imperfect bill" after backing a failed attempt earlier in the day to strip the immunity provision from the bill.
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That's why he's sunk with me; he won't be getting my vote come November, and I was willing and able!!!
"Senate Backs Wiretap Bill to Shield Phone Companies"
His reversal last month angered many of his most ardent supporters, who organized an unsuccessful drive to get him to reverse his position once again. And it came to symbolize what civil liberties advocates saw as “capitulation” by Democratic leaders to political pressure from the White House in an election year.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York voted against the bill.
Yeah, because it cost her nothing politically.
Voting for the bill were 47 Republicans, 21 Democrats and an independent, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut. Not voting [was] John McCain of Arizona, campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination.
The key stumbling block in the congressional negotiations was the insistence by the White House that any legislation include legal immunity for the phone companies that took part in the wiretapping program.
Another NYT LIE: Congress Doesn't Care About Bush's Spying
The deal approved on Wednesday, which passed the House on June 20, effectively ends those lawsuits. The legislation also expands the government’s power to invoke emergency wiretapping procedures. While the National Security Agency would be allowed to seek court orders for broad groups of foreign targets, the law creates a new, 7-day period for targeting foreigners without a court order in “exigent” circumstances if government officials assert that important national security information would be lost otherwise. The law also expands from three to seven days the period in which the government can conduct emergency wiretaps without a court on Americans.
Meanwhile, look what horse hockey the Zionist Times of New York is serving up today: Spy Cases Raise Concern on China’s Intentions
These the same guys who had to fork over $1.6 million for lies about Wen Ho Lee?
Yup, ten years (and longer) of GOOD, STEADFAST LYING by the New Yrk Times!
File closed and entombed, readers.
