Dem candidate: Warrantless wiretaps a 'victory' for terrorists

[Ian_rd]

Source: Raw Story

Democratic presidential candidate Chris Dodd, who has taken a hard-line in opposing Bush administration proposals to modify a foreign surveillance law, says the president's willingness to trample Constitutional rights hands terrorists a "victory" beyond what they could achieve through another attack.

"When you give up basic Constitutional rights, you give terrorists a far greater victory in ways," Dodd said during an online video chat.

The Connecticut senator explained his efforts to block a proposed bill that would grant immunity to telecommunications companies that critics say broke the law in allowing the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans without warrants.

Dodd repeated his promise to filibuster any surveillance law that included immunity for telephone and internet providers, while he acknowledged that sustaining such a blockade would not be easy.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Dem_candidate_Warrantless_wiretaps_victory_for_1023.html

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Uh oh - time for another DLC crackdown on a progressive politician. How long before he's threatened with censure?

[High Plains]

1. Thank you, Mr. Dodd.

[Doctor_J]

2. Let's have a pool on when he apologizes

I predict Monday at 10:32AM

[B3Nut]

3. A. Fucking. Men.

Say it loud, say it often. If the "terrorists" had the destruction of our freedoms as their goal, they could not possibly have had more effective assistance than what they have received from the Republicans so far. Now if the dems will grow a spine and tell the DLC to go suck a tailpipe...one can dream...

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[rocktivity]

4. Way to go, Chris--strangle them on their own rhetoric!

rocknation