FISA The Senate passed it. The House of Representatives, recess without ever taking the bill up; meaning our intelligence capabilities will, in many, many ways cease to exist. This is unconscionable. This is not politics. They’re playing politics with this. This is Pelosi, who is denying that the surge is working — and, by the […]

There’s an Associated Press story on this FISA business out there about how Congress has failed to re-up the FISA program. Bush is going to go ahead and go to Africa. The legislation passed on Tuesday in the Senate lapsed because the House didn’t even take it up. Recess started at noon today… I think. […]

The Democrats once again caved on the FISA bill, which contained a clause granting immunity to the telephone companies, telecommunications companies which provided data to the president for its warrantless wiretap searching program. The vote was an opportunity because of the Potomac primary, the vote was Tuesday in the Senate, and we have three senators […]

It’s a Q&A with Barack Obama December 20th in the Boston Globe, Charlie Savage wrote the story. < this section has been updated — due to factual error > – in a continuing effort to post only the truth and verifiable information. Thanks for the heads up -Gordo. 8. Under what circumstances, if any, is […]

From the Times of London… “Al-Qaeda Leaders Admit: ‘We are in Crisis. There is Panic and Fear’ — Al-Qaeda in Iraq faces an ‘extraordinary crisis.’ Last year’s mass defection of ordinary Sunnis from Al-Qaeda to the US military ‘created panic, fear and the unwillingness to fight’. The terrorist group’s security structure suffered ‘total collapse.’ These […]