I voted no on the amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) because they won’t make Americans any safer from terrorists.

They simply reflect George W. Bush’s belief that the President has virtually unlimited power to ignore Constitutional protections for individual privacy and civil rights.  The FISA Act, with only slight adjustments to accommodate changing communications technologies, would give the government all the ability it needs to gather information from dangerous people without trampling on the rights of U.S. citizens.

President Bush also seems unnerved at the prospect of American citizens filing lawsuits to protect their Constitutional rights. I wish he was as concerned about protecting citizens from giant corporations as he is about protecting giant corporations from citizens.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 at 12:16 pm and is filed under Politics, Homeland Security .