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Re: [privacy] Shameful: Here's How Your Senators Voted on FISA Bill S. 2248
From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:50:16 -0600 (CST)
Politics is off-topic Bill on-topic, your idea of the senators isn't. Yes? On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Paul Ferguson wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes, you've probably heard by now that our elected representatives in the U.S. Senate voted this morning to pass a FISA bill that provides immunity for telecommunications companies that were complicit in providing your telecommunications & call records to U.S. Intelligence & law enforcement without a court-ordered subpoena or warrant. Bill S. 2248 was passed by 76 votes in favor, 10 opposed, and 14 abstentions. In my home state of California, U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA), who voted in favor of this legislation, will not be getting my vote next time around. On the other hand, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), who voted against it, will be getting my vote. If you would like to see how your elected representative voted for this, and if they betrayed your trust -- by not listening to the voice of their own constituents -- here is the the roll call: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cf m?congress=110&session=1&vote=00435 This is, in my opinion, a very bad turn of events for the privacy of the citizens of this country. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHZujFq1pz9mNUZTMRArsuAJ9MPRkSFzhuNAL9Im6gcnbL0aLc2QCdEagH ekWCwzZ+OqaAFB2TileUKrk= =Emry -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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Current thread:
- [privacy] Shameful: Here's How Your Senators Voted on FISA Bill S. 2248 Paul Ferguson (Dec 17)
- Re: [privacy] Shameful: Here's How Your Senators Voted on FISA Bill S. 2248 Dude VanWinkle (Dec 17)
- Re: [privacy] Shameful: Here's How Your Senators Voted on FISA Bill S. 2248 Gadi Evron (Dec 17)
- Re: [privacy] Shameful: Here's How Your Senators Voted on FISA Bill S. 2248 Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 17)