Islamic terrorists laud FISA Law demise

As the sun sets Friday, only Islamic terrorists laud FISA Law demise, another loop in U.S. law to hid in

Amanda Carpenter, National Political Reporter for Townhall.com, reported Friday, Feb. 15, on the end of FISA, the ability of federal investigators to monitor terrorist communications.

The U.S. House of Representatives left for the President’s Day week-long recess without reauthorizing the law permitting the monitors, although the administration of President George Bush pleaded for action.

Available was a U.S. Senate version for FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, that had bipartisan support - it was House Democratic leaders who blocked action.

“Failure to act would harm our ability to monitor new terrorist activities and could reopen dangerous gaps in our intelligence,” President Bush warned in a press conference Thursday…

House Republicans were so outraged that FISA would be left to lapse, they staged a walkout before the contempt vote.

The New York Times broke a story in late 2005 that found the Bush administration had engaged in covert surveillance activities with cooperation from phone companies…

Debate has since erupted, largely on party lines, over whether or not to protect those companies from prosecution, utilizing FISA.

Disputes over the phone companies’ decision to cooperate with government requests has resulted in more than 40 multi-billion dollar lawsuits.

Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell wrote in a Washington Post op-ed Friday, "we are already losing capability due to the failure to address liability protection."

The Senate version of FISA reauthorization would grant immunity to those phone companies, but liberal Democrats in the House were staunchly opposed to doing so.

Democratic Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Rep. Silvestre Reyes (Tex.) wrote a letter to President Bush on Thursday.

“I see no argument why the future security of our country depends on whether past actions of telecommunications companies are immunized,” Reyes said.

His Senate counterpart, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D.-W.V.), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, however, urged his Senate colleagues to vote in favor of the immunity provision in the Senate bill.

On the Senate floor Thursday, Rockefeller said that without FISA reauthorization, "the quality of intelligence we are going to be receiving is going to be degraded.

“It is going to be degraded. It is already going to be degraded as telecommunications companies lose interest," Rockefeller added.

It would appear some of our Congressional leaders are not on board with the concept of defending our nation from Islamist Muslim terrorism and the plans terrorists are making right now.

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