[NYTr] Wiretap Law: Congressuional Democrats' List of Shame

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

The following list accompanied Truthout's redistribution of the New
York Tiimes story by James Risen on Bush signing the law that legalized
much of his illegal wiretapping.  For the Risen story, which we
distributed last night, see:


Bush Signs Wiretap Law that Legalizes Much of His Illegal Snooping
https://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20070730/066371.html

TruthOut - Aug 6, 2007
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080607J.shtml

[Editor's Note: The following is a list of Democrats who voted for the
FISA Bill, which signed into law the Bush administration's authority to
eavesdrop on US citizens, making surveillance without warrants, which
was being conducted in secret by the NSA and in violation of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, legal. cw/TO]

    Senate:

  # Evan Bayh
  # Tom Carper
  # Bob Casey
  # Kent Conrad
  # Dianne Feinstein
  # Daniel Inouye
  # Amy Klobuchar
  # Mary Landrieu
  # Blanche Lincoln
  # Claire McCaskill
  # Barbara Mikulski
  # Bill Nelson
  # Ben Nelson
  # Mark Pryor
  # Ken Salazar
  # Jim Webb

    House:

    Jason Altmire (4th Pennsylvania)
    John Barrow (12th Georgia) Blue Dog
    Melissa Bean (8th Illinois) Blue Dog
    Dan Boren (2nd Oklahoma) Blue Dog
    Leonard Boswell (3rd Iowa)
    Allen Boyd (2nd Florida) Blue Dog
    Christopher Carney (10th Pennsylvania) Blue Dog
    Ben Chandler (6th Kentucky) Blue Dog
    Jim Cooper (5th Tennessee) Blue Dog
    Jim Costa (20th California) Blue Dog
    Bud Cramer (5th Alabama) Blue Dog
    Henry Cuellar (28th Texas)
    Artur Davis (7th Alabama)
    Lincoln Davis (4th Tennessee) Blue Dog
    Joe Donnelly (2nd Indiana) Blue Dog
    Chet Edwards (17th Texas)
    Brad Ellsworth (8th Indiana) Blue Dog
    Bob Etheridge (North Carolina)
    Bart Gordon (6th Tennessee) Blue Dog
    Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (South Dakota) Blue Dog
    Brian Higgins (27th New York)
    Baron Hill (9th Indiana) Blue Dog
    Nick Lampson (23rd Texas) Blue Dog
    Daniel Lipinski (3rd Illinois)
    Jim Marshall (8th Georgia) Blue Dog
    Jim Matheson (2nd Utah) Blue Dog
    Mike McIntyre (7th North Carolina) Blue Dog
    Charlie Melancon (3rd Louisiana) Blue Dog
    Harry Mitchell (5th Arizona)
    Colin Peterson (7th Minnesota) Blue Dog
    Earl Pomeroy (North Dakota) Blue Dog
    Ciro Rodriguez (23rd Texas) Blue Dog
    Mike Ross (4th Arkansas) Blue Dog
    John Salazar (3rd Colorado) Blue Dog
    Heath Shuler (11th North Carolina) Blue Dog
    Vic Snyder (2nd Arkansas)
    Zachary Space (18th Ohio) Blue Dog
    John Tanner (8th Tennessee) Blue Dog
    Gene Taylor (4th Mississippi) Blue Dog
    Timothy Walz (1st Minnesota)
    Charles A. Wilson (6th Ohio) Blue Dog