Under this law, all the Bush White House has to do is present a piece of paper to a court claiming the privilege of granting legal immunity to a corporation, and then the court has no choice but to grant that immunity. Thanks to John Dingell for sharing this unfortunate truth.

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Barack Obama, who promised during the primaries to uphold the Constitution and end Bush’s spying programs if elected President, flip flopped and announced that he would support the law to allow government spying against American citizens without a search warrant. Then he added a real kicker - Obama said that he would continue the Bush spy programs if elected President. Obama said that he would “monitor” the spy programs himself - just like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney monitor them now.

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This is the section of the law that allows physical searches of your home or office at the President’s whim. It starts out looking like a protection from unreasonable physical searches, but please read all the way to the end. There, you’ll find a couple of clauses that strip away all protection from physical search without a warrant, and put the power right into the hands of the President’s top aides and political appointees.

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The FISA Amendments Act gives the government the power to send spies to search your home or office while you are gone, without any search warrant, without any judicial approval at all, and never tell you that they were there. Again, if the FISA Amendments Act becomes law you won’t have to even be suspected of a crime. The government will be able to search your home for no reason at all, or for political reasons, or because you’re gay, or because you’re African-American, or because you’re not a member of the right religion, or just because somewhere in the government there is somebody who doesn’t like you.

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These Democratic Party senators have lost the support of progressive Democrats. Not only will we no longer support these senators for re-election, we will oppose them. We will do whatever we can, within the law, to make sure that they are not re-elected.

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This action will only take you two minutes, one minute per phone call, but it means everything for the future of freedom in the United States of America. Please, don’t let the telecom spies take over. It’s time for true patriots to stand up in defense of liberty in the USA.

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Why should Democrats bother supporting Obama or Clinton when they won’t keep their promises to Democratic voters? Why should either Obama or Clinton be made President when they won’t do the job they have now as senators? If Clinton and Obama won’t act to defend our freedom from illegal government spying now, why should we believe that either one would defend our freedom as President?

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Senator Edward Kennedy skewered George W. Bush’s rhetoric on surveillance without a warrant, corporations, and the value of human life in a speech to the Senate on December 17, 2007:
Think about what we’ve been hearing from the White House in this debate. The President has said that American lives will be sacrificed if Congress […]

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