If you're in the vicinity of Washington, D.C., Saturday, I urge you to join the Stop Watching Us: Rally Against Mass Surveillance at 11:30 a.m. (Details at the link.) Oct. 26 is the 12th anniversary of the rancid Patriot Act. Formed just four months ago, the StopWatching.us coalition comprises more than 100 public advocacy organizations from across the political spectrum. The demands? Congress should investigate the NSA’s spying programs to the full extent, reform federal surveillance law and hold accountable officials responsible for hiding this surveillance from both and the public.
Marchers will gather in front of Union Station at 11:30 a.m. by the Christopher Columbus Memorial Fountain in Columbus Circle. Shortly after noon they will march to the rally point at National Mall at 3rd Street and Madison Dr. NW, in front of the Capitol Reflecting Pool.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2007— FISA: Keeping Secrets:
The administration really doesn't want the people to know what the NSA was doing and who they were spying on with their warrantless wiretaps, to the extent that they will finally release the documents that the committee subpoenaed four months ago. The Intelligence Committee has already seen these documents, and they were possibly sufficiently convincing enough for all of the Dems on the committee, excepting Wyden and Feingold, to support the FISA bill coming out of Intelligence.
The White House has offered leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee access to legal documents related to the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program, senators said Thursday.
But Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., said while the White House had offered the documents to both him and the panel’s ranking Republican, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, he was pushing for the entire committee to receive access to the documents. But he also said he would take advantage of the offer and review the documents. |
As the entire Intelligence Committee, and staff, have seen the documents it seems ridiculous that the entire Judiciary Committee can't see them as well. But what's more ridiculous is the fact that the information be withheld from the American public forever, which is what telecom amnesty would mean. |
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