Obama Supports FISA Legislation, Angering Left

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) today announced his support for a sweeping intelligence surveillance law that has been heavily denounced by the liberal activists who have fueled the financial engines of his presidential campaign.

[Thinker]

Don't be surprised, read "The rise and fall of the third reich".

[mlc9852]

Say what???????

[Pat]

Good for him.

[Pdamerica org]

Spy Chips Video
http://www.spychips.com/images/abc4-spychips-...

[Pdamerica org]

LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER
GOP star to get chip implant
Tommy Thompson signs up with VeriChip
July 22, 2005 / http://tinyurl.com/d3adl
Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson has volunteered to get an RFID electronic chip implant to show the world just how safe the new technology is.

The former secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in President Bush's first term sees it as a potentially life-saving move because the chip will have details of his medical history should he ever be in an accident.
Thompson will be among the first humans to get the chip. Pets have been routinely chipped at pounds and veterinarians' offices in recent years. http://www.spychips.com
Thompson, who recently joined the board of directors of VeriChip, said he believed the technology was an important and secure means of accessing medical records and other information.
Thompson sees the chip as extremely useful for doctors requiring personal information that will help medical professionals and others provide emergency treatment.
The chips contain a 16-digit identification code that can be scanned at hospitals and then linked to a database that contains users' medical data.
Thompson said he will receive the implant when more hospitals have the scanning technology, which could be "as soon as six months to a year."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp...

[Pdamerica org]

Tommy 'the Chip' Thompson
http://tinyurl.com/2qeve5 / April 10, 2007
But there is another reason I won't be voting for Tommy Thompson: He wants us all to be "chipped" with Radio Frequency Identification and sits on the board of the VeriChip Corp., a company currently talking to the Pentagon about inserting the grain-sized microchip into American citizens, beginning with our soldiers.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp...

[usasince1680]

What did they expect? No one does their homework. Obama voted to reauthorize the Patriot Act in 2005.

And, with all of his backtracking it also should not surprise anyone that he has once again backtracked from his previous stated stance of "refusing to let President Bush put protections for special interests ahead of our security and our liberty."

Obama has no integrity.

[FTR]

He's just playing politics and everyone knows it!! I'm sure he had to practice day in and day out in front of a mirror be be able to say he supports FISA in public...LOL...he's such a f***ing piece of sh*t.

[just had lunch]

"...but do so with a firm pledge that as president, I will carefully monitor the program,"

does ANYONE think he doesn't want that power? "he will carefully monitor it"...yeah, just like bill clinton did...to spy on his detractors!

STILL think he's a different kind of politician?
(if you do, you're dumber than dirt!)

[clone bensen]

they all show there fluke side eventrally

[Pat]

Feb - 08 WASHINGTON, D.C.- U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) today released the following statement on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Earlier today, Senator Obama voted in favor of the Dodd-Feingold amendment to repeal retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies (S. Amdt. 3907). He also supported other amendments to improve the bill, including the Feingold-Webb-Tester amendment to protect Americans from unwarranted surveillance (S. Amdt. 3979), and the Feingold amendment to protect Americans from the bulk collection of communications (S. Amdt. 3912).
http://obama.senate.gov/press/080212-obama_st...

June - 08 Obama Supports FISA Legislation, Angering Left
By Paul Kane
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) today announced his support for a sweeping intelligence surveillance law that has been heavily denounced by the liberal activists who have fueled the financial engines of his presidential campaign.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008...

[Blame The Republicans]

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[Pdamerica org]

VERIZON & AT&T SPY ON ALL THEIR CUSTOMERS
Telecom Whistleblower Discovers Circuit that Allows Access to All Systems on Wireless Carrier—Phone Calls, Text Messages, Emails and More / April 10, 2008 / http://tinyurl.com/4u8nla
Babak Pasdar is a computer security expert who was hired in 2003 to help restructure the tech infrastructure at a major wireless telecommunications company. What he found shocked him. The company had set up a system that gave a third party, presumably a governmental entity, access to every communication coming through that company’s infrastructure. This means every email, internet use, document transmission, video, text message, as well as the ability to listen to and record any phone call.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/10/telecom...

[Pdamerica org]

Spy Agency Sought U.S. Call Records Before 9/11, Lawyers Say
http://tinyurl.com/egle8 June 30
(Bloomberg)-- The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court.

The allegation is part of a court filing adding AT&T, the nation's largest telephone company, as a defendant in a breach of privacy case filed earlier this month on behalf of Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. customers. The suit alleges that the three carriers, the NSA and President George W. Bush violated the Telecommunications Act of 1934 and the U.S. Constitution, and seeks money damages.

``The Bush Administration asserted this became necessary after 9/11,'' plaintiff's lawyer Carl Mayer said in a telephone interview.``This undermines that assertion.''
The lawsuit is related to an alleged NSA program to record and store data on calls placed by subscribers. More than 30 suits have been filed over claims that the carriers, the three biggest U.S. telephone companies, violated the privacy rights of their customers by cooperating with the NSA in an effort to track alleged terrorists.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news...

[Buzz Flederjon]

The GOP type J. Edgar Hoover fascism and hatred of privacy has always been there - but now the Dems cave in on domestic spying and they have the majority?

I knew the Repukes were scum - and now the Dems are following in their footsteps..... sad sad sad.

America is slowly dying......

[JCD]

BHO arrogance knows no limits. He already thinks he is the president-elect! Check out his arrogance here:

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo...

He is inexperienced and arrogant. This is a very dangerous combination for the most powerful position in the world.

[Pdamerica org]

Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room
http://tinyurl.com/q3xb4 04.07.06
AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers' phone calls, and shunted its customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center, according to a former AT&T worker cooperating in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against the company. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news...

[Pdamerica org]

Concerns aired on statewide cable bill
Loss of protections feared; backers tout competition
March 27, 2007 http://tinyurl.com/ynnwek
Competition in the cable TV industry is a worthy goal, but proposed legislation meant to encourage it could cut into consumer protection and local programming, lawmakers were told Tuesday. http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx...

JOINT STATEMENT OF
CHAIRMAN KEVIN J. MARTIN AND
COMMISSIONER DEBORAH TAYLOR TATE
Re: AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corporation Application for Transfer of Control, WC Docket No. 06-74
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachm...

CONCURRING STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL J. COPPS
Re: AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corporation Application for Transfer of Control, WC Docket No. 06-74
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachm...

STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER JONATHAN S. ADELSTEIN
Re: Comparative Consideration of 76 Groups of Mutually Exclusive Applications for Permits to
Construct New or Modified Noncommercial Educational FM Stations
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachm...

[Tropic]

Pdamerica org wrote:

VERIZON & AT&T SPY ON ALL THEIR CUSTOMERS
Telecom Whistleblower Discovers Circuit that Allows Access to All Systems on Wireless Carrier—Phone Calls, Text Messages, Emails and More / April 10, 2008 / http://tinyurl.com/4u8nla
Babak Pasdar is a computer security expert who was hired in 2003 to help restructure the tech infrastructure at a major wireless telecommunications company. What he found shocked him. The company had set up a system that gave a third party, presumably a governmental entity, access to every communication coming through that company’s infrastructure. This means every email, internet use, document transmission, video, text message, as well as the ability to listen to and record any phone call.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/10/telecom...

If the NSA, or whomever, is listening to my calls, could you get me a large pepperoni pizza?

[Pdamerica org]

Brown and Cameron clash over ID
http://tinyurl.com/2gubb4 4 July 2007
Gordon Brown and David Cameron have clashed over plans to introduce identity cards in their first prime minister's questions encounter.
Mr Cameron, whose Conservatives oppose the cards, said they would "cause more problems than they solve" and had not stopped terror attacks abroad.
But Mr Brown, who raised the issue, said they were needed as they were "complementary" to other policies.
He called on all political parties to show "unity in the face of terror".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6...