Obama supports extending Patriot act provisions.

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: AAjax

Topic Title: Obama supports extending Patriot act provisions.
Topic Summary: Wants goverment to continue to keep records of what books you read.


Well, I guess this shouldn't be any big surprise as he voted to extend once before. Oh well, meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Horseshit

He has ObamaCare on the table now.

If he started working on an Obama Act to replace the Patriot Act you mother fuckers would be raising cane that he's working too many big issues at once.

I think it is a great Fuck you on Obama's part and keep loving your heroes Patriot Act.

:laugh:

Some of the worst justification I have ever seen. Congrats!

 

[Phokus]

I'll withold judgement to see what privacy protections are on the table, but if it's only extending the patriot act as is, i will, of course, be disappointed

 

[sciwizam]

Sen. Russ Feingold: It's Not the Prosecutors' Committee, it's the Judiciary Committee

As usual Glenn Greenwald always delivers.

Russ Feingold just wrote a scathing condemnation of the behavior of his Senate Democratic colleagues and, especially, the Obama administration with regard to what they just did with the Patriot Act and FISA renewals, including this:

I am also very troubled that administration officials have been taking positions behind closed doors that they are not taking publicly. . . If the administration wanted to further water down the already limited reforms in the bill that was on the table, they should have said so openly. Instead, at our only public hearing we were told that the Justice Department did not have positions on the crucial issues about to be discussed. Then, over the past week, in classified settings, the Department has weighed in against even some of the limited reforms that Sen. Leahy originally proposed.

The administration loves to posture in public as though they support various reforms -- to lead their wild-eyed supporters to believe they do -- only to work in secret to gut those same reforms. Feingold adds that "[a]t the beginning of the year, I had high hopes for the Patriot Act reauthorization process." Why? Just because of small facts like these:

We had just elected a President with a strong civil liberties record in the Senate. His Attorney General had supported some reforms during consideration of the last reauthorization bill in 2005. And Democrats controlled the Senate by such a large margin that our advantage on the Judiciary Committee ended up at 12-7 after Sen. Specter switched parties.

Despite all of that, Feingold ended up having to vote against the new Patriot Act bill that he spent all year leading because it was diluted to the point where very little was fixed and some things were actually made worse. When it comes to transparency and civil liberties, that's what the Democratic Congress and White House are. If the record I documented here isn't enough to see that, then take it from someone who sees them up close and personal every day.

 

[HannibalX]

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

 

[manowar821]

That seals it, then. Fuck this administration, too. Bastards need to be shown their place.

 

[TruePaige]

Huh..so I've seen Phokus, much to be happiness, admit the Patriot Act is bad (I didn't want to have to say bad things about ya. ) and...Dave support it with..I don't even know what to call that.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Man WTF. I'd vote against Obama in 2012 but I doubt there will be a major candidate that is AGAINST the Patriot Act. If the Republican campaigns against the PA, he gets my vote.