Bush signs bill overhauling eavesdropping rules

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: WP/AP

WASHINGTON -- President Bush signed a bill Thursday that overhauls rules about government eavesdropping and grants immunity to telecommunications companies that helped the U.S. spy on Americans in suspected terrorism cases.

He called it "landmark legislation that is vital to the security of our people."

Bush signed the measure in a Rose Garden ceremony a day after the Senate sent it to him, following nearly a year of debate in the Democratic-led Congress over surveillance rules and the warrantless wiretapping program Bush initiated after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It was a battle that pitted privacy and civil liberties concerns against the desire to prevent terrorist attacks and Democrats' fears of being portrayed as weak when it comes to protecting the country.

Its passage was a major victory for Bush, an unpopular lame-duck president who nevertheless has been able to prevail over Congress on most issues of national security and intelligence disputes....

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071000421.html?hpid=moreheadlines

[msongs]

1. too bad the opposition party doesnt oppose more. oh well nt

[John Q. Citizen]

4. They haven't debated the defense budget for years. It the war party, made up of almost every single

Repo and about 35% of the Dems, and the peace party, made up of the rest of the Dems and a couple of Repos.

[Indenturedebtor]

5. Wait a minute... there's an opposition party?

What happened in the five minutes it took me to make a sandwhich?!??!?!?! :woohoo:

[DrDan]

6. thanks for the reminder

I often forget junior has an "opposition party".

I guess it is too bad they are not in the majority.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. "...an unpopular lame-duck president who nevertheless has been able to prevail ..."

:eyes:

[tblue]

3. Donate to the ACLU! They are fighting this thing.

[Jefferson23]

10. Thats what I have done and highly recommend to anyone who cares

about the future of our nation to do the same.

[LynnTheDem]

7. "an unpopular lame-duck president"...they forgot to add

war criminal and traitor.

[dipsydoodle]

8. I guess lame - duck meant to say

"people regulation that is vital to me"

[Kelvin Mace]

9. The Republic is officially dead

as we move from de facto police state, to de jure police state.

Pretty soon the only people left supporting Bush will be the Obama and the other Democrats who keep voting to give him what he wants.

[Deny and Shred]

11. We should all learn to stop worrying and love Big Brother

[superconnected]

12. What opposition party?