Tag Archive 'FISA'

Obama lurches away from his core

Posted by Moonage on 10 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, National Security

Barack Obama’s having a rough week.
First, he did the very odd thing of stating very publicly he liked President Bush’s Faith Based Initiative so much he wanted to expand it.  That drew the ire of the Reverend Jesse Jackson:
“See, Barack’s been talking down to black people on this faith-based—,” Jackson says during a break in [...]

The politics of warrantless wiretaps

Posted by Moonage on 03 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: National Security

Not too terribly long ago, we had a major todo over warrantless wiretaps. First there was a lot of rhetoric circling around this “abuse of the Constitution”. In March, 2006, Russ Feingold decided to make it political. He offered a bill to the Senate to censure the President over the use of [...]