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Bye-bye, 4th Amendment

. . .the Senate gave final approval on Wednesday afternoon to broadening the government’s spy powers and providing legal immunity for the phone companies that took part in the wiretapping program.

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Both houses, controlled by Democrats, approved what amounted to the biggest restructuring of federal surveillance law in 30 years, giving the government more latitude to eavesdrop on targets abroad and at home who are suspected of links to terrorism.

What's the point of electing Democrats to office if they vote with Republicans to throw civil liberties over a cliff? Note, as Greenwald does, that Bush tried to get legislation passed allowing this when Republicans controlled both houses of Congress and couldn't do it. It took Democrats in control to give him this kind of victory.

Better Democrats, please. I just wrote Senator Inouye to tell him he's already gotten the last vote he'll ever get from me.