"The McConnell-Bond bill that revises and updates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act passed the Senate with strong bipartisan support of 17 Democratic senators. It is a crucially necessary bit of legislation given that FISA is not only 30 years old, it has also been crippled by the 'secret ruling by a FISA judge earlier this year that declared surveillance of purely foreign communications that pass through a U.S. communications node illegal without a court-approved warrant -- a requirement that intelligence officials have described as unacceptably burdensome.'"
This bill is too important to be playing politics with. I think that congress has created an atmosphere where the hatred of the president is outrageous. They trust the president so little that they wouldn't allow him to hold their wallet, if it were empty. This is partly due to Bush and the way he has governed and he has to be honest about that. The truth is that it is harming America though, and some kind of solution needs to be worked out.
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