Feingold on FISA on FOX

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Transcript: Senator Russ Feingold on 'FOX News Sunday'

Sunday, July 29, 2007


WALLACE: . . . you talk about national security. While you're calling for a special prosecutor, the director of national intelligence wants Congress to do something that he says is vital to protect our safety.

He wants changes in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, as it's called, which at this point he says hinder the ability of the United States to intercept communications between one foreign terrorist in a foreign country and another foreign terrorist in another country.

In fact, would you push to fix that law before Congress leaves for its August recess?

FEINGOLD: See, what you just described is exactly the kind of thing we should be doing. Communications between two foreign sources is something that all of us have publicly said we can agree should be changed.

But that's not what they're pushing for, Chris. What they're doing is trying to change immunity laws. They're trying to take items that go through the normal courts and put them into secret courts. They're trying to basically gut the FISA law as part of this process.

So it's the old game they play. They did it on the Patriot Act. They did it on military commissions where they threw all kinds of inappropriate things. They bring up something that everybody agrees on, and then they throw the kitchen sink in and try to jam it through at the last minute.

This is an outrageous attack on the privacy of the American people. Why shouldn't they propose something that we can agree on? We could get that through in one day.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291298,00.html


Bush radio address on FISA today: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070728.html


my take:

Bush's FISA Duck and Cover
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1465599&mesg_id=1465599

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1. Wallace is a smarmy shit. Way to go Sen. Feingold

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2. He did not learn anything from his dad Mike Wallace

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3. Feingold: Bush Admin. 'trying to gut FISA law' [VIDEO]

from RawStory: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Feingold_Bush_abused_American_people_0729.html

Feingold: Bush Admin. 'trying to gut FISA law'

Sunday July 29, 2007

Today on Fox News Sunday Senator Russ Feingold called for a special prosecutor to investigate potential false statements by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

"The only way it can be done fairly is through the request that four of us have made which is that a Special Counsel be appointed through the Bush Administration, through the Attorney General's office and that they look at it and determine whether something has happened here that I think has happened, which is, I think, perhaps a crime has been committed by the Attorney General on this matter."

Chris Wallace went on to question Senator Feingold on the call for revision of the current FISA laws, the contempt citations for White House staffers, and the upcoming vote on censuring the President.

Wrapping up the segment, Wallace noted that the show had offered the administration and Republican Judiciary Committee members to appear on the show to defend Attorney General Gonzales, "We had no takers."

video: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Feingold_Bush_abused_American_people_0729.html