Fox News Helps Bush Hide Scope of His New Power to Spy on US

Both before and after the Democratic Congress handed the Bush Administration sweeping new spying powers on August 4, Fox News ran stories that misleadingly minimized the scope of those new powers as well as misrepresented the protections lost from the old law. To prove my point, I use Fox News "Special Report with Brit Hume" clips from August 3, 6, and 20, 2007.

I also used a short clip from an August 7 segment of "The Colbert Report" that is available in full on the Comedy Central website at: http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/index.jhtml?ml_video=90951

The old version of the FISA law to which I refer in my video is available online at: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/1801.html

And, the new version of the FISA law to which I refer in my video is available online at: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_bills&...

Also, you can see the ACLU ad campaign to which I refer that criticized the deal between the Democratic Congress and the Bush Administration at: http://action.aclu.org/site/DocServer/BAAAD_ad.pdf?docID=1541

And, finally, this video qualifies as one of DOZENS of examples on my FOX NEWS BIAS playlist at: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D

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[vancouver76]

Can't anyone in your country sue Faux News for misleading viewers? Or take Congress and/or the administration to court, or challenge this revised law in supreme court? Are any qualified persons trying to do this, and if not, is it simply because they fear reprisals, or think they will not succeed? Wasn't your country founded by people who fought seemingly insurmountable odds?

[jedismith5]

i too scared to answer

[Tyjohnable]

@LiberalViewer

It's really sad that this terribly scary video is one of your least viewed.

Your video on marijuana (witch wile informative wasn't near as important as this one) got 379,100 views.

PS I'm glad to always see lots of dislikes on your vids it means that even though they disagree with you hopefully some of them will at least question things like Fox "news".

Keep up the good work

[ryuenden]

I care!!! I don't know how many people care, but I care... and the square root of 1 percent of a given population can make a difference. so keep caring and keep encouraging people to make a difference.

[davisfleetwood]

So, #UN#, how did Obama do in the SOTU the other night?

[richardaberdeen]

The Declaration mentions God at least five separate times and closes asking for God's blessing on the revolutionary cause. Thus by default, every signer of the Declaration were signing that they believed in God, whether you like it or not. There is ZERO evidence that any founding father was either an agnostic or an atheist. And, "church", "religion" and "God" were three different distinct ideas in the the 18th Century, whether or not you and/or the ACLU pretends otherwise.

[richardaberdeen]

Dawkins goes to incredibly imbecillic lengths to prove what any moron already knows, that he is just a liar, inventing fiction not found in evidence. On the other hand, I have a long list of quotes from Einstein (see Britannica bio and Walter Isaacson bio) claiming he believed in God. You cannot speak for Jefferson; only someone's own words speak for them. You have no idea what Jefferson would our would not believe if he were around today. Like Dawkins, your's just making it up as you go.

[Xirbtt]

I'm afraid just referencing God is not enough to say they believe in them. Stephen Hawking, Einstein, even Richard Dawkins all reference God, but do they (did they) believe in them? No. They didn't. Thomas Jefferson would have a totally different view on design if he was around today. Also the signers of the deceleration knew about the importance of religion but also knew it should not interfere with the state. Keep church and state separate please. -That was to your earlier comment on this vid

[richardaberdeen]

It's a total invention of atheists that Jefferson was like them. Jefferson very clearly set himself apart from atheism in the Declaration, as did Thomas Paine in his various writings. To distrust religion, as some but by no means all of the founding fathers did, is not at all the same thing as atheism. Many European deists believed in a personal inter-active God above and apart from religion, which appears to be true regarding both Paine & Jefferson; Jefferson's last letter references God.