Rep. Harman on Wiretapping and the 15 Day Extension

The House debates whether to extend by 15 days the Protect America Act. In November the House passed the RESTORE Act, which provides the Intelligence Community with effective tools to conduct surveillance of foreign targets outside the United States but restores Constitutional checks and balances that were not contained in the Protect America Act, but the House passed this extension to grant the Senate the time necessary to pass a suitable companion bill. Rep. Jane Harman speaks on the issue.

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• Democrats
• Congress
• FISA
• wiretapping
• RESTORE
• Protectect
• America
• Act
• PAA
• Jane
• Harman

[Verified1]

Bravo, Rep. Harman, congress needs to repeatedly fact-check this president, and publicly point out his attempts to bamboozle a semi-informed populace.

[wotrabbitfish]

wiretapping? must be a typo, all i see is a wire-haired terrier

[duhCider]

Democrats, you CANNOT BACK DOWN on the FISA issue. You are clearly in the right here and the President's counter-response puts him squarely in bed with the telcoms. MAKE HAY ON THIS ONE, P_L_E_A_S_E!!!!! It's a belated xmas gift from the boy who cried yellow cake! You've got to focus on this one. It so clearly shows the true motivations of the Republicans. TIME TO STAND UP!