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By Tim Starks
February 7, 2008
Politics officially entered the Senate debate over a rewrite of electronic surveillance rules Thursday when the Republican National Committee released a Web video attacking the leading Democratic presidential candidates for "undermining" an overhaul.
The video was posted on YouTube and on the RNC Web site and distributed to grassroots organizers, according to an RNC official. It criticizes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., as well as Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., for opposing retroactive legal immunity for telecommunications companies being sued over their alleged role in the warrantless surveillance program.
It also urges them to enact permanent changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA, PL 95-511) that would update a temporary law (PL 110-55) that expanded the Bush administration's surveillance authority, which is set to expire Feb. 16.
"If Senators Reid, Clinton, Obama and their Democrat colleagues do not make the FISA updates permanent, they'll deny intelligence and law enforcement communities the tools they need to protect Americans from foreign terrorists," the video states. "After all, the terrorist threat to America never expires." ...
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