Senate Votes to Expand Spy Powers

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WASHINGTON — After more than a year of wrangling, the Senate handed the White House a major victory on Tuesday by voting to broaden the government’s spy powers and to give legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush’s program of eavesdropping without warrants.

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/us...ref=washington

[Timber]

I am not really sure how I feel about this, I have always been a big fan of surveillance cameras all over the place. I think what you do in public is not an invasion on you privacy rights because you are in public. Wire tapping is not the same & I do understand it but I also see the road to abuse of such a measure. I also think the government has many tools & laws available to them as it is that the either don't take advantage of or don't fund the enforcement of properly

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I am not really sure how I feel about this, I have always been a big fan of surveillance cameras all over the place. I think what you do in public is not an invasion on you privacy rights because you are in public. Wire tapping is not the same & I do understand it but I also see the road to abuse of such a measure. I also think the government has many tools & laws available to them as it is that the either don't take advantage of or don't fund the enforcement of properly

the problem is that they are crossing the lines between public and private. and how they have nobody to answer too.

[NewbieChris]

I am pretty sure they voted the bill down, but that jack ass Bush is trying to push it through. He said he will postpone a trip to Africa he has planned if it doesn't pass. What a piece of shit.

[blm]

They have until midnight tonight. There is no way I'd support this.

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Eavesdropping Law Is Likely to Lapse

WASHINGTON — Broad spying powers temporarily approved by Congress in August appear likely to lapse this week after a daylong game of chicken on Wednesday between the White House and House Democrats produced no clear resolution.

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/wa...gy&oref=slogin