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Amnesty Day for Bush and lawbreaking telecoms
(Updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV) The Senate today -- led by Jay Rockefeller, enabled by Harry Reid, and with the active support of at least 12 (and probably more) Democrats, in conjunction with an as-always lockstep GOP caucus -- will vote to legalize warrantless spying on the telephone calls and emails of Americans, and will also provide full retroactive amnesty to lawbreaking telecoms, thus forever putting an end to any efforts to investigate and obtain a judicial ruling regarding the Bush administration's years-long illegal spying programs aimed at Americans.
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Today’s Wall Street Journal includes an editorial attacking Senate Democrats like Barack Obama and Chris Dodd for their work to stop retroactive immunity and pass legislation that includes congressional and judicial oversight of domestic surveillance.
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It's official. Meet your new congresswoman from Maryland! Donna Edwards still has a general election to ratify the victory, but in this district, that's a done deal. As I wrote time and time again, we don't have the money to buy off our politicians, and the bad Democrats know we're not about to start voting for Republicans. So the only way we can hold our caucus accountable is to send notice that we will primary them. And sure, they may survive such primaries. But sometimes they won't. We'll be working this fall for "more" Democrats, but today we struck a blow on behalf of better Democrats. Our caucus is once again on notice.
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Senate Votes to Give Retroactive Immunity for Telecoms
Let there be no doubt: a majority of senators, and a large number of Democrats, think the telecoms should not suffer the hazard of accountability for cooperating with the administration's warrantless wiretapping program. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) took to the floor last night to give a speech asking, "This is our defining question, the question that confronts every generation: The rule of law, or the rule of men?" The resounding answer: the rule of men. The Senate voted on the Dodd/Feingold amendment, which would have stripped retroactive immunity from the surveillance bill just now.
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Kathleen Turner tells all in new memoir
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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has begun reassuring anxious donors and superdelegates that the nomination is not slipping away from her, aides said Monday.
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