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More False 'Compromises' on Wiretapping

Dave McGuire writes on the PolicyBeta Blog:

We wish we could offer you some good news on the warrantless wiretapping front, but everything we hear seems to get grimmer. Below is the text of a press release we sent out today regarding the latest developments in support of the dangerous Cheney-Specter proposal.

Three Senators today indicated that they would support Senator Arlen Specter’s (R-Pa.) warrantless wiretapping bill in response to changes made to the legislation since it was first introduced.

The announcement represents the latest of many attempts by bill supporters to paint wiretapping legislation as some sort of compromise. This is simply not the case. The changes to the Specter Bill cited by Senators Larry Craig (R-Idaho), John Sununu (R-N.H.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) are meaningless. The version of the bill introduced by Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) would be just as disastrous — from both a national security and a privacy standpoint — as previous iterations, Center for Democracy & Technology Policy Director Jim Dempsey said today.

posted by Fergie @ 9/25/2006 08:08:00 PM