Glenn Greenwald, posting on Salon.com wrote on Tuesday:
It is absolutely true that yesterday’s victory in forcing Harry Reid to pull the FISA bill from the Senate floor is temporary. Allies of the administration and lawbreaking telecoms will spend the next several weeks plotting to overcome the obstacles thrown in their path yesterday and, like a weed that has been cut but not uprooted, will return in January to try again…
…The most important value of victories of this sort is that they ought to serve as a potent tonic against defeatism, regardless of the ultimate outcome. And successes like this can and should provide a template for how to continue to strengthen these efforts. Yesterday’s victory, temporary as it is, shouldn’t be over-stated, but it also shouldn’t be minimized. All of it stemmed from the spontaneous passion and anger of hundreds of thousands of individuals demanding that telecoms be subject to the rule of law like everyone else. And this effort could have been — and, with this additional time, still can be — much bigger and stronger still.
Glenn Greenwald, posting on Salon.com wrote on Tuesday:
It is absolutely true that yesterday’s victory in forcing Harry Reid to pull the FISA bill from the Senate floor is temporary. Allies of the administration and lawbreaking telecoms will spend the next several weeks plotting to overcome the obstacles thrown in their path yesterday and, like a weed that has been cut but not uprooted, will return in January to try again…
…The most important value of victories of this sort is that they ought to serve as a potent tonic against defeatism, regardless of the ultimate outcome. And successes like this can and should provide a template for how to continue to strengthen these efforts. Yesterday’s victory, temporary as it is, shouldn’t be over-stated, but it also shouldn’t be minimized. All of it stemmed from the spontaneous passion and anger of hundreds of thousands of individuals demanding that telecoms be subject to the rule of law like everyone else. And this effort could have been — and, with this additional time, still can be — much bigger and stronger still.
It is bewildering to me that a lawyer, and a person of normally good judgment would vote to pass a measure that grants immunity to law breaking telecom companies.
You should have supported Senators Dodd and Finegold in their efforts to bring forward the FISA bill without retroactive immunity.
It seems clear that this is nothing more than another presidential power grab. There is no logic to it otherwise.
Have you actually viewed Dodd’s speach or read the transcript? I suggest you do so:
