We Need FISA Now!!!

House Democrats refuse to pass the FISA bill the Dem Senate finally sent over after months of stalling-- which we need to protect us from terrorists. House Republicans walk out in protest. Rep. Eric Cantor here. Background, Andrew McCarthy, NRO:

Wednesday morning, President Bush wisely told the House of Representatives that there would be no further delays: There must be action on an overhaul of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) within the next 48 hours or the current stopgap measure, the Protect America Act, will expire.

If that happens, the current statutory authority for the intelligence community to monitor foreign terrorists overseas will end. The CIA and NSA, under a secret FISA court ruling Americans have not been permitted to review, would be required to seek probable-cause judicial warrants to surveil terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere around the globe. That impossible burden — bringing tens of thousands of enemy communications under FISA’s arduous legal procedures, all for the benefit of alien enemies who have no right to privacy protection under American law — would shut down intelligence collection.

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