Liberty MavenRon Paul Denounces The New FISA Bill
June 25th, 2008 11:51 am | by Marc Gallagher | Published in Civil Liberties, Constitution, Liberty, Politics, Ron Paul, law | 3 Responses
Ron Paul gave a regretful statement on the House floor regarding the recently passed warrant-less wiretapping, telecom immunity FISA bill. He was regretful that he wasn’t there to vote “No”.
Mr. Speaker, I regret that due to the unexpected last-minute appearance of this measure on the legislative calendar this week, a prior commitment has prevented me from voting on the FISA amendments. I have strongly opposed every previous FISA overhaul attempt and I certainly would have voted against this one as well.
The main reason I oppose this latest version is that it still clearly violates the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution by allowing the federal government to engage in the bulk collection of American citizens’ communications without a search warrant. That US citizens can have their private communication intercepted by the government without a search warrant is anti-American, deeply disturbing, and completely unacceptable.
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June 27th, 2008 at 1:23 am (#)
[...] Liberty Maven blog falsely stated this Extended Remark was a floor speech, instead of a 4 days after the fact insertion. They also seem to have missed why Paul missed the vote because of his trip to Missoula, which is of course far more important that Paul actually doing what he says, and defending the Constitution in Congress. [...]