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More Secrets and Lies From Democratic Congress
It seems that the Democrats are still the wimps that the GOP takes them for:
Two months after insisting that they would roll back broad eavesdropping powers won by the Bush administration, Democrats in Congress appear ready to make concessions that could extend some crucial powers given to the National Security Agency.
Administration officials say they are confident they will win approval of the broadened authority that they secured temporarily in August as Congress rushed toward recess. Some Democratic officials concede that they may not come up with enough votes to stop approval.
As the debate over the eavesdropping powers of the National Security Agency begins anew this week, the emerging measures reflect the reality confronting the Democrats.
This "reality" evidently doesn't contain a copy of the US Constitution or the 4th Amendment.
So far the bill does require some transparency to the Congress, but it has yet to hit the Senate yet, and that is usually where (further) deals with the devil are made.
So be careful what you say.