Specter’s compromise: “You can have everything you wanted, Emporer Bush, sir.”<\/p>\n
Specter Offers Compromise on NSA Surveillance<\/a><\/p>\n
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has proposed legislation that would give President Bush the option of seeking a warrant from a special court for an electronic surveillance program such as the one being conducted by the National Security Agency.<\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n
Another part of the Specter bill would grant blanket amnesty to anyone who authorized warrantless surveillance under presidential authority, a provision that seems to ensure that no one would be held criminally liable if the current program is found illegal under present law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Because, of course, if the courts find that illegal activities are going on, we wouldn’t want anyone to be held responsible, or anything crazy like that.<\/p>\n
See the title is funny because it works with the apostrophe-s standing in for either “has” or “is”. Funny like my head explodes.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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