Spy Law's Lapse Doesn't Hurt National Security, Conyers Says(radio address)

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Source: Bloomberg

The lapse of a law that allows American spy agencies to intercept the U.S. phone calls and e- mails of suspected foreign terrorists doesn't hinder intelligence gathering or endanger national security, Representative John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said.

Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, said President George W. Bush and Republicans in Congress defeated the extension of a temporary surveillance law because they wanted the House of Representatives to approve a Senate bill that would shield phone companies from lawsuits accusing them of invading customers' privacy after they helped the government eavesdrop on calls.

``The expiration of the temporary August legislation does not endanger our national security,'' Conyers said in the weekly Democratic radio address. ``Well-established emergency provisions of the current surveillance laws are more than adequate to address any emergent threats.''

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``The President and House Republicans simply can't have it both ways,'' Conyers said. ``They cannot argue simultaneously that the temporary August law was essential to national security, and then turn around and engineer the defeat of an extension of it.''



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Congressman John Conyers Delivers the Democratic Radio Address
http://www.dnc.org/a/2008/02/congressman_joh_5.php

[High Plains]

1. You wanna wiretap somebody, get a goddamned warrant!

That's what this is about: warrantless wiretapping. Get a fucking warrant! Is that so hard?

[pansypoo53219]

2. warrants

WHY is georgie so afraid of them?

when do we get a list of the people georgie spied on, and is Kerry on the top?
how many congressional democrats? WHO?

[truthisfreedom]

3. It's not just Dems. Imagine how much they have to have on the rethug Congresspeople to keep them

all in line. They eat their own. bushco is a mob, a mafia... it's not about rule of law. They're animals.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. Having treasonous war criminals in the Oval Office DOES.

Please address THAT, Mr. Conyers.

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[Bilbo Heugan]

5. They use vacuum sweeper spying, so they need to bypass FISA.

[ohio2007]

6. misinformation

they said they have packed it in and gone ..... phishing......