It is a time of fear in the face of freedom, a time for the widening of previous roads and the opening of new paths, a time of an emptying country and swelling cities, yet a time when these paths are mined by knowing algorithms of the all-seeing eye. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.
 | Update with PDF of Bill to Renew Warrantless Wiretapping |
Senate Republicans have obtained the cooperation of Senate Democratic leadership in promoting new legislation to extend the program of unconstitutional warrantless wiretapping that was declared legal under this August’s Protect America Act. Conservative Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller shepherded the bill through its initial stages, and now the bill has passed out of the Senate Intelligence Committee on a vote of 13 for and just 2 against. Thanks are due to Ron Wyden and Russell Feingold for providing those two votes in opposition.
The Daily Digests for October 19 and for October 18 contain reference to the this bill (entitled the “Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2007″) being voted out of committee, but there is no reference to the text of this bill. However, the Senate Intelligence Committee has placed a non-text PDF copy of it here.
I’m not satisfied with that, because it doesn’t allow people to review and search the text, so I’m transcribing it and will make it available online soon.
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