WASHINGTON - The Senate, in a high-stakes showdown over national security, voted late Friday to temporarily give President Bush expanded authority to eavesdrop on suspected foreign terrorists without court warrants.
Update:The House of "Representatives" has now sold us out as well, passing their own version of the bill to please the Busco regime.
The House, meanwhile, rejected a Democratic version of the bill.
Democratic leaders there were working on a plan to bring up the Senate-passed measure and vote on it Saturday in response to Bush's demand that Congress give him expanded powers before leaving for vacation this weekend.
The White House applauded the Senate vote and urged the House to quickly follow suit.
The bill "will give our intelligence professionals the essential tools they need to protect our nation," said White House spokesman Tony Fratto. "It is urgent that this legislation become law as quickly as possible."
High stakes showdown? What nonsense...there was never any doubt that the spineless bunch in the senate would pass the latest fascist reform requested by Herr Decider.
U.S. Constitution - R.I.P.
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Senate votes to expand eavesdropping power
Posted by Melinda L. Secor at 2:50 AM
Labels: "war on terror", Big Brother, dictatorship, fascism, fear mongering, gestapo tactics, government corruption, Police State, survielance society
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