{"id":197566,"date":"2008-01-25T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/25\/im-confused-on-the-fisa-progress\/"},"modified":"2008-01-25T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T05:01:00","slug":"im-confused-on-the-fisa-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/25\/im-confused-on-the-fisa-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Confused on the FISA Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2008\/01\/reid_statement_on_fisa_legisla.php\">Harriy Reid attempts to exhibit some intestinal fortitude, and demands real filibusters<\/a>, and then 12 Democrats (Sens. Evan Bayh (D-IN), Tom Carper (D-DE), Daniel Inouye (D-HI), Tim Johnson (D-SD), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Bill Nelson (D-FL), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Mark Pryor (D-AR), Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), and Ken Salazar (D-CO)) voted with the Republicans to keep Telco immunity.<\/p>\n<p>I have to figure that this is Reid playing both ends against the middle.  He says, &#8220;Real Filibuster&#8221;, and defuses efforts to remove him as leader, but then twists arms to get Dem Senators to vote to support bush&#8217;s position.<\/p>\n<p>It still appears, however, that George W. Bush won&#8217;t get what he wants from the house easily, so he has<a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5hJKgeE0Z-SivATjok-utYBdh9wDwD8UCD4IO2\">released White House wiretap docs to the house<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">NOTE<\/span>:  When reading this article, there is a significant factual error, &#8220;The companies were helping the administration carry out the so-called Terrorist Surveillance Program, a still classified effort that intercepted communications on U.S. soil without oversight from the FISA court from Sept. 11, 2001 to January 17, 2007.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">This is not true<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This program was initiated in February, 2001, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">predating the attacks by 7 months<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, Harriy Reid attempts to exhibit some intestinal fortitude, and demands real filibusters, and then 12 Democrats (Sens. Evan Bayh (D-IN), Tom Carper (D-DE), Daniel Inouye (D-HI), Tim Johnson (D-SD), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Bill Nelson (D-FL), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Mark Pryor (D-AR), Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), and Ken Salazar (D-CO)) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,998,1102,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-congress","category-intelligence","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}