Why Does Al Franken Refuse To Speak Up on FISA Amendments Act?
Al Franken likes to depict himself as a well-informed, straight-talking kind of guy. Franken says that if he is elected to the United States Senate, he will stand up for the rights of voters in Minnesota.
So why is it, then, that Al Franken refuses to take a position on the FISA Amendments Act?
Go ahead and search through Al Franken’s Senate campaign web site. Search the news. Search the blogs. Nowhere does Al Franken even mention the FISA Amendments Act.
This proposed law threatens to take away Americans’ constitutional rights, and to destroy the system of checks and balances that keeps our democracy alive. The FISA Amendments Act represents one of the worst policies of George W. Bush - spying on millions of Americans without a search warrant or any other form of judicial control. The FISA Amendments Act is corrupt to the core.
So, why won’t Al Franken take a stand? Has Franken been too lazy to bother to read the FISA Amendments Act, or is he just too afraid to condemn this latest abuse from the politicians of fear?
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July 6th, 2008 at 12:49 am
[…] So why is it, with two and a half weeks since the House of Representatives made the text of the FISA Amendments Act available and then rushed it through to passage less than 24 hours later, Al Franken still hasn’t told voters whether he supports the proposed law? Why is it that, with the United States Senate scheduled to vote on the FISA Amendments Act this coming Tuesday, Al Franken still says nothing? […]