{"id":424,"date":"2007-08-04T13:57:21","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T17:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/08\/04\/whats-your-problem-jim-webb\/"},"modified":"2007-08-04T19:57:19","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T23:57:19","slug":"whats-your-problem-jim-webb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/08\/04\/whats-your-problem-jim-webb\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s your problem, Jim Webb?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, with Sen. Jim Webb’s vote, the Senate passed<\/a> a measure that “broaden[s] the ability to eavesdrop without warrants on communications that are primarily \u00e2\u20ac\u0153foreign\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in nature, even if they may touch on Americans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 phone calls and e-mail.” In doing so, they capitulated to a President who has shown, over and over again, that he cannot be trusted to respect American’s most basic rights.<\/p>\n

I know that Sen. Webb knows that Bush can’t be trusted. I also know that he’s not stupid enough to be bamboozled by the sky-is-falling act<\/a> the Administration goes through every time it wants something. What I don’t know is what in the world would move Webb to give more power to a President and Attorney General who have absolutely no respect for the law.<\/p>\n

So what your problem, Jim Webb? Do you think that your constituents are so stupid that they’ll demand that you give Bush everything he wants? Do you just not give a damn about the Constitution? Or was it just easier for you?<\/p>\n

I think you owe us an answer.<\/p>\n

Background for those who are interested:<\/p>\n

Marty Lederman’s analysis of the bill<\/a><\/p>\n

The Director of National Intelligence and Dems agreed on a bill, Bush threw a fit, Dems capitulated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

House version of the bill<\/a><\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s Webb’s statement on the matter<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s as appalling as I expected.\u00c2\u00a0 And the apologists should really be ashamed, falling all over themselves to make excuses (and what’s really sad is that they sound just like the Republicans they spent so much time and effort berating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, with Sen. Jim Webb’s vote, the Senate passed a measure that “broaden[s] the ability to eavesdrop without warrants on communications that are primarily \u00e2\u20ac\u0153foreign\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in nature, even if they may touch on Americans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 phone calls and e-mail.” In doing so, they capitulated to a President who has shown, over and over again, that he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-politics","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t