This is starting to become a pattern. The Democratic congress is showing that it is just as willing to do the administration’s bidding as the Republicans were:
First it was their caving in to continue to fund the immoral war in Iraq, and now they have basically said to any American who calls overseas: you will be monitored. Whether you are suspected of talking to terrorists or not.Bush is getting practically everything he asked for. Indeed, under Bush’s warrantless-search program launched in 2001, the administration could conduct oversight-free surveillance only if it suspected someone on the call was a terrorist. Under the bill passed by the Senate yesterday, that condition no longer exists.
And for those who would say “the only people who have to worry are those who are doing something wrong”: has this administration done anything to make us believe that it will NOT use the law in unethical ways? The same administration which has ignored the Geneva convention, implemented illegal wiretapping programs without Congressional or court authorization, and used executive privilege to obstruct Congressional oversight investigations?
These people cannot be trusted, and yet the Democrats in Congress have done just that. Yeah, that’s why we elected you.
