House Democrats Rewrite Spying Measure to Fix `Drafting Error'

[spotbird]

Source: Bloomberg

Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Consider this hypothetical: Agents tap into a phone conversation between al-Qaeda operatives overseas and a conspirator in the U.S. plotting an attack and are bound by law to ignore the discovery.

The scenario isn't that farfetched, say critics of a proposed law to increase federal court supervision of eavesdropping on suspected terrorists. Democrats call it a drafting error and are rewriting the legislation.

The measure's defects go ``far beyond simple drafting errors,'' Texas Representative Lamar Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement. ``This bill is fatally flawed'' and ``creates a new, burdensome process for intelligence officials before they can listen to Osama bin Laden's'' telephone calls.


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[truthisfreedom]

1. Hey repukes... go f*** yourselves.

You lawbreakers are going to be seriously in the minority within a year and three months.

[Kagemusha]

2. Ignore? Excuse me, ignore?

That doesn't even fit with the rest of the article, let alone what I remember of, oh, I don't know, the truth, of what happened...

And I don't even like this bill.

[annabanana]

3. "bound by law to ignore the discovery"

WHAT a steaming pile of crap. They can go and get it cleared at FISA for, what 72 hours afterwards. Why do they keep repeating this?