Everything about this bill is wrong, least of which is not that it was proposed by the White House. So, in our current legal system, the executive proposes legislation, vetoes it, issues executive orders, declares war without Congressional approval. At this point we're pretty much already under a dictatorship, though the media, coupled with fear and willful ignorance, cause denial. -- KM


The ads come from the ostensibly nonpartisan group Defense of Democracies, following up on an earlier campaign from the group targeting many of the same lawmakers. The organization is urging the House to pass a Bush-approved update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that would provide legal immunity to phone companies that may have violated the law in facilitating the warrantless wiretapping of Americans after 9/11. Civil libertarians and privacy advocates say the White House version of the bill, which already has been approved in the Senate, also does not provide enough judicial and congressional oversight for the administration's proposed surveillance program.

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