Focus (Forum & Focus)
Aug. 14, 2007
FISA Changes Chip Away at American Traditions, Fourth Amendment
Forum Column - By Cindy Cohn - The Bush administration's push to strengthen the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act flies in the face of the country's history of civil liberties--eerily like James Madison predicted it would.
By Cindy Cohn
During the first weekend in August, the president scared Congress into passing some dramatic changes to America's bedrock anti-spying law by claiming that it needed an "update." Yet, far from moving our country forward, these changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act indicate that Congress may be willing to set America back 250 years. Despite the advanced technology used by the Bush admini...
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