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Fisa, telecom immunity and your oath of office

Posted by zanesafrit 07/04/2008 12:00 AM PDT

I'm curious how any Democrat, much less any member of Congress, considered their oath of office to uphold the Constitution before they voted to allow for telecom immunity in the service of warrantless, secret, illegal and unconstitutional searches of our phone calls.

As the Bill passed under your stewardship, clearly not many did. What a disservice to the citizens of your district and to the country overall.

Comments (10)Category/Tags : Governing Philosophy/Process (101) fisa telecom immunity 4th amendment bill of rights leadership Mark as duplicate

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zanesafrit

07/08/2008

Here's the question: Ms. Speaker, did you consider your oath of office, the oath that included the provision to defend and protect the constitution, our constitution...did you consider that oath and its terms as you voted to allow activities now and in the past that clearly violated the terms of that oath?

I think I have the appropriate punctuation preceded by the appropriate interrogative pronoun to qualify as a question.

But at the end of the day, with never a response from the Speaker herself, does it really matter if it's a rant, a question, a dialogue.

zanesafrit

07/06/2008

Last,

Great comment.

You're right. Our personal privacy isn't the issue, either, really. As you point out we freely share our calling records with the phone companies (we have no choice) and our buying habits with companies and the cookies they place on our computers.

Nor is the procedures of the FISA court, the issue.

The issue is the willingness, or the lack, of our congressional leaders to fulfill their responsibility as our representatives and honor their oath of office, to uphold the Constitution, to uphold the rule of law. Allowing warrantless searches by the telecom community of our calling records on behalf of a secret program aimed not at international calling, but ALL calling, by American citizens is both illegal and unconstitutional. (They usually go hand in hand...) And by then allowing for retroactive immunity at this point...failing to uphold their oaths, our form of government.