Where’s the Outrage?

I have been blogging about the FISA law for a while. I have been leaning on Glenn Greenwald and research and knowledge. I have as forcefully, as I can, stated that immunity for Telecoms just doesn’t make sense on any level unless you don’t want the truth to come out. If you want to bury the truth of how the Telecoms gave the Bush Administration everything and how the Bush Administration misused their power than having this information come out in court isn’t a good thing.

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Keith Olbermann has an excellent Special Comment.

Partial Transcript:

He has demanded an extension of the FICA law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but only an extension that includes retroactive immunity for the Telecoms who helped him spy on you.

Congress has given him, and he has signed, a 15-day extension, which simply kicks the time bomb down the field, and has changed nothing of his insipid rhetoric, in which he portrays the Democrats as ’soft on terror’ and getting in the way of his Superhuman efforts to protect the nation when, in fact and with bitter irony, if anybody is ’soft on terror’ here it is Mr. Bush.

In the State of the Union Address, Sir, you told Congress, “if you do not act by Friday, our ability to track terrorist threats would be weakened and our citizens will be in greater danger.”

Yet you are willing to weaken that ability!

You will subject us, your citizens, to that greater danger.

This, Mr. Bush, is simple enough even for you to understand: If Congress approves a new FICA act without telecom immunity and sends it to your desk and you veto it, you, by your own terms and your own definitions, you will have just sided with the terrorists.

You got to have this law, or we’re all going to die. But you might veto this law!

It’s bad enough, Sir, that you are demanding an ex post facto law which would clear the phone giants from responsibility for their systematic, aggressive, and blatant collaboration with your illegal and unjustified spying on Americans, under the flimsy guise of looking for any terrorists stupid enough to make a collect call or send a mass e-mail. (more…)

Tags: Bush Administration, Congress, Countdown, Domestic Spying //