Partisan Free Politics

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) bill is making quite a few appearances in the MSM these days. Apparently, Congress is debating whether or not to grant telecommunications companies immunity for working with the National Security Agency (NSA) post 9-11 to spy on each and every American Citizen. AT&T is taking the brunt of the criticism, but Verizon is also know to have co-operated (providing the gov. with all of my phone calls). (Qwest is the only company known to have declined the NSA’s request, and also maintains that the warrantless wiretapping began 7 months prior to 9-11.)

Suspending the questions of whether or not the government should have co-opted the Telecom companies into violating the law, and whether or not the Telecom companies should have complied; my questions are for Congress. Why aren’t they performing in their capacity to oversee the bureaucracy? Why are they pretending that they had no role in allowing this violation of our Constitution? Where’s the responsibility? Where’s the accountability? Most importantly, why don’t people in the U.S. give a damn?

Many of you will say, “It was those evil Republicans who did it”. Nevertheless, from where I am sitting Democratic or Republican party alike, it’s the institution of Congress that is no longer accountable to its citizens, and We The People are to blame.

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