It is now over a week that America has not renewed the FISA law that enables us to conduct intelligence against terrorists, solely because the Democrats are doing the bidding of their trial lawyer moneymen. The trial lawyers have dozens of lawsuits pending against telecom companies for cooperating with the federal government after September 11 by, under a Justice Department legal opinion, helping to intercept terrorist communications. For Democrats, they would rather endanger our country and put lives at risk than upset their most important financial backers. If this is not treason, it is as close as you can get without committing it. It's ironic that the left has libeled Gen. David Petraeus as a traitor, when it is the Democrats who are literally committing treason.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell wrote a letter to House intelligence committee chairman Silvestre Reyes noting how absurdly ignorant he was when he stated that the Democrats' refusal to act did not imperil our nation. But, did you expect anything more from the supremely unqualified and breathtakingly uninformed Reyes, whom Nancy Pelosi made chairman instead of the much more knowledgable and senior Jane Harman. That Reyes could be so utterly wrong about basic intelligence as chairman of the committee is frightening, and is the price America is paying for putting Democrats in charge.
Democrats, of course, claim to want to negotiate a "bi-partisan" agreement. I suppose the Democrat holdouts would be negotiating on behalf of al Qaeda, then, because the bill that the President would sign and that enough House Democrats would support for it to pass was passed by the Senate 68-29, including with the support of Chairman Jay Rockefeller. Enough Democrats will vote "yes" for it to pass easily in the House, as it passed in the Senate, if only Pelosi would allow a vote. But she refused and left for a wedding instead.
And I hope the McCain campaign takes note of the fact that Obama and Clinton both took money from lawyers who are suing the telecom companies that heeded their nation's call for help after September 11 (Obama voted against FISA and Clinton didn't vote at all). Their greed is putting all of our lives in danger and, G-d forbid there is another attack, these same traitors will lambaste President Bush for intelligence failures that they themselves are creating. The Republican party should be pounding the Democrats on this all day every day until they put the interests of the nation ahead of those of their top financial contributors.
If the telecoms have done no wrong why would they be concerned about lawsuits that will be thrown out due to lack of statutory merit? And the FISA rules are still in play they have been and will continue to be no matter what the Congress does based upon its founding act.
As a solicitor I have to admit that what they pursue is a greater protection under US law of civil liberties that one day might allow you to keep your firearms rather than have to turn them over to a government that has found this right a hindrance to their future plans.
Qu'ul cuda praedex nihil!
Posted by: Cavalor Epthith, Esquire, D.S.V.J. at February 27, 2008 10:42 AM
