Senate Proceeding on Dec 17th, 2007 :: 4:28:36 to 4:30:06
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Speech By: Edward Kennedy

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Edward Kennedy: a little puzzled by seeing how this bill, this bill which includes significantly more protections for american civil liberties and constitutional rights somehow goes back on the original fisa. the

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Christopher Dodd: original fisa required a court review of targeting of united states persons. we have gone far beyond that in in bill. as a matter of fact, the protect america act, which he decried, contained all of

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Speech By: Christopher Dodd

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Christopher Dodd: the protections that were in the original fisa bill. now we have on a bipartisan basis -- i keep emphasizing that the intelligence committee on a bipartisan basis, after being fully briefed, fully

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Christopher Dodd: briefed by veral elements of the intelligence community, and we asked them questions, we had briefings, we went to the n.s.a. to see how it worked. we went through all of these ideas with them.

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Christopher Dodd: they said we understand your objective. here's how to accomplish it. and i think we have prepared a very good bill that any fair reading, any fair reading will extend the protections beyond what

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Christopher Dodd: the original fisa and even the protect america act had for the surveillance, electronic surveillance of anybody either in the united states or united states person abroad. and i am very much surprised that he

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Edward Kennedy: says that somehow this bill which providesvi more protection doesn't provide the basic protections of fisa. i regret to say that that is just not right. i also want to address some questions about immunity