[privacy] Shameful: Here's How Your Senators Voted on FISA Bill S. 2248

[Gadi Evron]

Politics is off-topic

Bill on-topic, your idea of the senators isn't. Yes?


On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Paul Ferguson wrote:

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> 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
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> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> fergdawg(at)netzero.net
> ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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