Obama’s Website
So on Barack Obama’s website there are various social networking thingamajigs. Since I am not part of the myspace/facebook/whatever crowd I didn’t really care. Turns out that someone made a group on the obama website that I actually cared about. It’s called Senator Obama Please Vote Against FISA. As of writing this it is the second largest group on his website with 8952 members.
I don’t really expect Obama to change his position back to what it should be. I’ll probably write to Obama and Feinstein (I haven’t looked it up but I’m guessing that Feinstein is voting for immunity). The vote to grant immunity to the telecoms for spying on Americans is going in for a final vote sometime after the July 4th holiday.
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I wrote to Boxer and Feinstein about the FISA bill. Boxer’s adamantly against it, so that’s good. Feinstein actually responded with a frankly compelling argument supporting her position, which as I understand it is this:
Job one is making sure this doesn’t happen again. There was some manufactured ambiguity that maybe what President Bush did wasn’t entirely without legal justification. Our important job right now is to make the law crystal clear: don’t do that shit. As for immunity, her stated position seemed to be that the first step is to figure out if the wiretapping was illegal according to the laws at the time. If it was not, then the phone companies should be granted immunity from lawsuits against them.
Of course, when I summarize her position, a lot is left out. Maybe when you write to her, she’ll respond with the identical letter.