Obama's support for the FISA "compromise"

What Barack Obama did here was wrong and destructive. He's supporting a bill that is a full-scale assault on our Constitution and an endorsement of the premise that our laws can be broken by the political and corporate elite whenever the scary specter of The Terrorists can be invoked to justify it. What's more, as a Constitutional Law Professor, he knows full well what a radical perversion of our Constitution this bill is, and yet he's supporting it ... Full Story »

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Norman Farrell
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by Norman Farrell - Oct. 1, 2008

Constitutional expert Glenn Greenwald. an uncompromising critic of the Bush Administration, aims harsh rhetoric at Obama for approving the Rockefeller/Hoyer bill that grants broad powers to spy on American citizens. Greenwald criticizes Democratic supporters who accept Obama's about face, saying, " No political leader merits uncritical devotion -- neither when they are running for office nor when they occupy it." As usual, Greenwald's Salon column is dynamic. He adds updates and reference links and occasionally interacts with readers who add hundreds of comments, many of them intelligent contributions.

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