FISA Amendment Just In Time To Steal Election

Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2008-07-02 14:59. Would the White House be Able to Eavesdrop on Obama Under the FISA Bill Barack Supports? You Bet. By Elliot D. Cohen, BuzzFlash Senate Democrats and Republicans alike are now poised to pass H.R. 6304, known as the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, a bill touted by both House and Senate leaders to be a compromise proposal to prior Senate Bill 2248. Unfortunately, H.R. 6304 may give the Bush administration, in its last months, the ammunition it needs to hijack the 2008 presidential election. It has been known for some time that, since 2001, the Bush administration has conducted mass surveillance of the email and telephone calls made by American citizens. All electronic messages passing through switches in the US, regardless of whether they were international or domestic... [read full story]