ACLU Fights Wiretapping Approved by Obama, McCain and Bush

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When Pres. George W. Bush and Sen. Barack Obama BOTH agreed on unconstitutional amendments to the foreign intelligence surveillance act (FISA) last week, it raised questions about Obama's consistency on civil liberties and about how to best fight this assault on the Fourth Amendment and the right to privacy. I try to answer these questions with some clips from a Barack Obama news conference and from spokespeople for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

You can see the full July 1, 2008, Barack Obama news conference from which I took a short clip for my video at

You can see ACLU Legislative Counsel Michelle Richardson's full June 21, 2008, appearance on C-SPAN's Washington Journal at

You can see more about the ACLU's fight against the FISA Amendments Act (including the ACLU video from which I took a short clip) at

And, you can see Sen. Barack Obama's full February 16, 2006, statement on the USA PATRIOT Act Reauthorization at

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Uploaded: July 16, 2008 at 11:02 pm
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Video Comments:
ahblisschris (November 26, 2008 at 2:48 pm)
This is Very Important We need to pay close attention to the FISA wiretapping scheme
Kemruss (November 7, 2008 at 12:15 am)
We all should have voted for Ron Paul. Although I am a liberal and he is a republican, and i dont agree with Ron's stance on abortion, he did want to abolish the nazi/patriot act, remove our occupation in the middle east thats motivating the extremist and finally put an end to the tyrannical rule of the federal reserve system and fractional reserve banking. This country will soon be bankrupt because of the fed, just look it up my friends.
drr8587 (November 18, 2008 at 2:15 pm)
Kemruss, you totally destroyed any credibility you may have had in that argument when you said "nazi/patriot act".

Your statement is now officially meaningless, good job
deagla (November 6, 2008 at 11:18 pm)
I'm going to write something you guys don't want to hear..reptilian Draconians(7 different castes) now covertly rule the Earth. the royalty of the Dracs are the Ciakers, which are 14-22ft tall beings that are very clever/psychic but doesn't respect humanity at all..because they created us on a ship what we call today the Garden of Eden. They're going to create as much fear as possible during this time because we're at a time where humanity evolves or fails(probably fails and is assimilated...
latewire (November 5, 2008 at 10:51 pm)
What the crap? "Oh, well it's okay that he voted for this draconian shit, because he felt rill bad about it afterwards"

Man you people disgust me. If he votes for nazi shit, DOES IT FUCKING MATTER WHAT HE SAYS?! If he takes my rights, he doesn't deserve to be in power. Such sheep. You keep voting for people who do the same thing, you won't get "change".. well not the change you want.
bla34112 (November 8, 2008 at 4:39 pm)
enh... this clip did kinda make me wonder
Aaberg123 (November 4, 2008 at 8:53 pm)
"Most likely"... Based on what exactly?!
Damn doomsayer.
dadarocks (November 3, 2008 at 11:19 am)
Barack obama is a nobody and has no idelogical backbone.. he is good at giving scripted speeches and that;s it.. has nothign to show for for president;s job
fittsy (November 2, 2008 at 7:29 pm)
that's nice of you, but what's wrong with being a socialist?
norehct (October 30, 2008 at 6:56 am)
Yes i was reading to my daughter if we visit US (home) next summer, our cell phones could be confiscated and she said 'We leanred about that in school! Thats a dictatorship! They tell you when you can take pictures, they treat you as if you were three yrs old.'And random bag searches on the Metro in DC, Come on People!!!