C-Span Reports a FISA Bill Will Be On House Floor Tomorrow

[ThomWV]

They gave no further information.

[dweller]

1. anyone know the bill number?

:shrug:


dp

[slipslidingaway]

4. HR 3773...from Glen Greenwald yesterday...

see links within the articles for details

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/03/11/democrats/index.html

"UPDATE II: I've now had the opportunity to read the full text of the House FISA bill which they unveiled today. It is actually surprisingly good, though the real question, of course, is how committed they really are to having it enacted, as opposed to this being merely a base-placating measure with the real intention of enacting something virtually identical to the Rockefeller/Cheney bill once it is returned from the Senate.

I've posted the official House Democratic summary of the bill's provisions here. If someone wants to upload the .pdf version of the full bill, please email me within the next 15 minutes (2:15 pm EST) and I'll email it to you and then link to the document. The fact that the House bill is reasonably good, but highly unlikely to pass because of the sizable portion of Congressional Democrats eager to follow Jay Rockefeller and support every one of the President's demands, underscores the central point here. Along those lines, a rather amazing amount of money has been raised in just a few hours this morning -- more than $14,000 $18,000 $27,000 $35,000 and counting -- in order to target Democrats eager to enable telecom amnesty and warrantless eavesdropping.

UPDATE III: The full text of the House bill is here (.pdf).'


And from today...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/03/12/house_democrats/index.html

"...With regard to yesterday's FISA bill, more surprising than their defiance is their shrewdness. By including a provision that explicitly authorizes telecoms to submit to the court any exculpatory documents -- notwithstanding the assertion by the administration that those documents are subject to the "state secrets" privilege -- the House bill completely guts, in one fell swoop, the primary argument that, for months, has been made by telecoms and their allies as to why amnesty is necessary..."

[VP505]

2. WTF ?

I guess there are those who can't stand the notion that they won by doing nothing, ATTN: Nancy, Stenny and Rham, IF IT AIN'T BROKEN DON'T FIX IT!

[madokie]

3. dollars to donuts they've caved

figuratively speaking on both counts

[slipslidingaway]

5. kick n/t