Sunday, June 9, 2013

FISA: What Would Hillary Clinton Have Done? Here is a BIG CLUE!

Our Jen found this vintage WSJ article that resolves that question.  Additional words from me are not necessary.
July 9, 2008, 6:01 PM

Obama, Clinton Split on FISA Vote

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.

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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.