Dodd: Warrantless Wiretaps a Victory for Terrorists
By Leslie on October 24, 2007 at 1:23 AM in Current Affairs
Speaking in Iowa today, Senator Dodd said:
The president’s willingness to trample Constitutional rights hands terrorists a “victory” beyond what they could achieve through another attack. “When you give up basic Constitutional rights, you give terrorists a far greater victory in ways.”
Today Senator Dodd also wrote every member of the Senate urging them to stop Bush’s surveillance reform bill from being considered or voted on, especially the provision granting immunity to telecoms. In his letter, Dodd insisted that the judicial branch ought to be allowed to do its job in considering whether the telecoms had violated the law and should be criminally or civilly held liable. If the Senate acquiesces to the Administration, Dodd wrote, the Senate “will be complicit in the President’s attempt to circumvent the rule of law and the Administration’s continuing efforts to keep Americans in the dark.”
Hillary Clinton says she would support a filibuster of the FISA reform bill.
YES, this is what the Dems ought to be doing! Dodd is sending just the right message: Gutting the US Constitution helps the terrorists win.
UPDATE: Dodd is asking everyone to help make sure the telecom immunity amendment never makes it out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Support Dodd here by calling up members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and asking them to oppose retroactive immunity.
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