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"I am adamant about protecting the Constitution. They're giving nothing in return for it. We're not getting any more security and they're shredding the Constitution," said U.S. Rep. Nancy Boyda, D-Second Dist.
"What shocks me is how members of Congress from Kansas would so readily give up 230 years of our Constitution without gaining any additional security," Boyda said.
"The Bush administration wants the cases flat out dismissed," said Michelle Richardson, a legislative consultant for the ACLU. "That doesn't just save the telecoms money, but it buries Bush administration wrongdoing."
"The question is why the president is completely unwilling to tell Congress what he did," Boyda said. "It seems to me it's probably about domestic surveillance."
"This time, what they are proposing will absolutely gut it — there will not be a FISA left," Richardson said.
"If you are willing to have the government come into your home and into your personal life without any probable cause and without any oversight or any warrant, then you have just given up our democracy," Boyda said.
In 1759, Benjamin Franklin wrote, "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Entire Article
In case you have not noticed it yet, We The People, are getting screwed!
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