Our Jen found this vintage
WSJ article that resolves that question. Additional words from me are not necessary.
July 9, 2008, 6:01 PM
By Susan Davis
Siobhan Gorman reports on Congress.
So much for unity? New York Sen.
Hillary Clinton split with former rival Sen.
Barack Obama today, voting against a controversial surveillance measure the expected Democratic nominee supported.
Hillary
Clinton talks with Barack Obama aboard his campaign plane June 27. The
former rivals split their votes on a controversial spy bill Wednesday.
(AP)
Obama has taken considerable flack from liberal
activists since announcing a couple weeks ago that he would support the
measure, which expands government surveillance powers in the United
States.
Obama said he would work to eliminate a provision to grant
conditional immunity to phone companies alleged to have participated in
the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program, but
amendments attempting to pare back or strip immunity from the
surveillance bill were defeated Wednesday, as expected.
Obama won the nomination, in part, by running to Clinton’s left, but
he has been tacking right since clinching the nomination in early
June–which today landed him to Clinton’s right on the spy bill, which
overhauled the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
