In Opposition to the FISA Bill
By Chris Dodd
()
About this ebook
Related to In Opposition to the FISA Bill
Related ebooks
U.S. Senate Hearing on Wartime Executive Power and National Security Agency's Surveillance Authority Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThis Is The Truth: Authority and Jurisdiction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCan We?: Comments and Recommendations for Preserving Our Nation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEvery Canadian's Guide to the Law Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An Elephant's Guide to Net Neutrality Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCorrupted by Power: The Supreme Court and the Constitution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCato Supreme Court Review, 2008-2009 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCourts and Procedure in England and in New Jersey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsExposés: Investigative Reporting for Clean Government Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow the Bill of Rights and a Lack of Virtue are Destroying America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTort Reform: A Study in Frustration Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Path of the Law Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHell No: Your Right to Dissent in Twenty-First-Century America Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Fire & Smoke: Government, Lawsuits, and the Rule of Law Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Constitution Hanging By a Thread Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Journal of the Debates in the Convention which framed the Constitution of the United States, Volume II (of 2) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI, the Citizen Declare…: How the American Citizen Can Take Back His Country Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYour Day in Court: Using Common Law with Common Sense Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Stand and Fight Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Other Side of the Fence: Setting the record straight Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFixing This Broken Thing...The American Criminal Justice System Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWays to Heaven - Colonization of Mars I Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAbraham Lincoln - The Complete Collection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCato Supreme Court Review, 2003-2004 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat Prohibition Has Done to America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOne Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Restoring The Republic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
History For You
The Richest Man in Babylon: The most inspiring book on wealth ever written Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Secret History of the World Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5100 Things You're Not Supposed to Know: Secrets, Conspiracies, Cover Ups, and Absurdities Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Library Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Reset: And the War for the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Whore Stories: A Revealing History of the World's Oldest Profession Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lessons of History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for In Opposition to the FISA Bill
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
In Opposition to the FISA Bill - Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd
In Opposition to the FISA Bill
Published by Good Press, 2022
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4064066402235
Table of Contents
Cover
Titlepage
Text
Mr. President: I rise—once again—to voice my strong opposition to the misguided FISA legislation before us today. I have strong reservations about the so-called improvements made to Title I. But more than that, this legislation includes provisions which would grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that apparently have violated the privacy and the trust of millions of Americans by participating in the president’s warrantless wiretapping program. If we pass this legislation, the Senate will ratify a domestic spying regime that has already concentrated far too much unaccountable power in the president’s hands and will place the telecommunications companies above the law.
I am here today to implore my colleagues to vote against cloture in the morning.
And let me make clear, at the outset of this debate, that this is not about domestic surveillance itself. We all recognize the importance of domestic surveillance – in an age of unprecedented threats. This is about illegal, unwarranted, unchecked domestic surveillance.
And that difference—the difference between surveillance that is lawful, warranted and that which is not—is everything.
Mr. President, I had hoped I would not have to return to this floor again under these circumstances – hoped that in these negotiations we would have been able to turn aside retroactive immunity on the grounds that it is bad policy and sets a terrible precedent.
As all of my colleagues know, I have long fought against retroactive immunity, because I believe, quite simply, it is an abandonment of the rule of law. I’ve fought this with everything I had in me—and I haven’t waged this fight alone.
In December, I opposed retroactive immunity on the Senate floor. I spent ten hours on this floor then. In January and February, I came to the floor time and time again to discuss the dangers of granting retroactive immunity. Along with my colleague and friend Russ Feingold, who has shown remarkable leadership on this issue, I offered an amendment that would have stripped retroactive immunity from the Senate bill. Unfortunately, our amendment failed and to my extreme disappointment, the Senate adopted the underlying bill.
Since passage of the Senate bill, there has been extensive negotiations on how to move forward. Today, we are being asked to pass the so-called compromise that was reached by some of our colleagues and approved by the House of Representatives.
I am here today to say that I will not and cannot support this legislation. It goes against everything I have stood for – everything this body ought to stand