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"How dare they rip the Fourth Amendment?"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Commentary: How dare they rip the Fourth Amendment?, by Joseph L. Galloway in McClatchy Newspapers, on the coming FISA bill: Early next week the U.S. Senate will vote on an extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, with a few small amendments intended to immunize telecommunications corporations that assisted our government in the warrantless and illegal wiretapping it has grown to love. That such a gutting of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution even made it out of committee is yet another stain on the gutless and seemingly powerless Democratic majority in both houses of Congress. That a majority on both sides of the aisle — not least of them the presumptive nominees for president of both political parties — intend to vote for such a violation of Americans' right to privacy and of the sanctity of their personal communications is a stunning surrender to those who want us to live in fear forever...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on July 04, 2008 (boomark / email).