Theme: Chariot Races and Angry Faces: Obama, FISA, and Civil Liberties
July 14, 2008
I just read on cnn.com that Barrack Obama has just voted, along with 68 other senators, to pass the FISA bill (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), which dictates exactly how the federal government can eavesdrop on Americans. Now, knowing that Obama specifically said that he would oppose any form of the FISA bill that would grant telephone companies immunity from lawsuits, (even if they illegally spied on US citizens without the required warrant to do so), you would think that Obama would have the courage and the capacity to stick to his principles on this important issue.
Well if you did, you thought wrong.