McConnell, Mukasey: Bush Will Veto A Delay of Even Ten Minutes on Retroactive Telecom Immunity!

[maddezmom]

McConnell, Mukasey: Bush Will Veto A Delay of Even Ten Minutes on Retroactive Telecom Immunity!
By Spencer Ackerman 07/07/2008 04:10PM
Mike "FISA" Lillis gave me permission to post on this. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell and Attorney General Michael Mukasey just released their latest letter to Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in advance of the Senate's expected vote to gut the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. With barely the thinnest veneer of shame, McConnell and Mukasey say that the Bingaman amendment -- which, as Mike reported, "would delay the effective date of the immunity provision until inspectors general of the Dept. of Justice, the Pentagon and several other agencies have finished an investigation into the warrantless surveillance program and reported their findings to Congress" -- is unacceptable as a matter of national security!

Any amendment that would delay implementation of the liability protections in this matter is unacceptable. Providing prompt liability protection is critical to the national security. Accordingly, we, as well as the President's other senior advisers, will recommend that the President veto any bill that includes such an amendment.

more:http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/mcconnell-mukasey

[DJ13]

1. Good!

Then he can keep vetoing until his term is over.

[yardwork]

2. My reaction exactly! Eeeeeeeexcellent!

Now if those wusses give in to this...

[indepat]

3. Then veto and let the games begin

:D

[tishaLA]

4. OK. I'll take that.

Too bad for georgie. He doesn't get to gut FISA.

[Tutonic]

5. You can thank Chuck Schumer for this piece of crap!

Perhaps its time for someone to look into his campaign war chest.