“Now that the Democrats were nice enough to fold up on FISA, the issue is all contained now. Right? Not exactly.” Keith Olbermann said on the August 18 episode of Countdown.
The Justice Department has proposed changes that would ease the transfer of information about citizens to federal intelligence agencies, who would then keep the information for at least 10 years.
“The point of this? To increase our security and counter terror threats?” Olbermann asks, as he answers his question with “Nah, to pass these changes before Mr. Bush leaves office so the next president can’t do a damn thing about unraveling this disaster, which is, appropriately enough, an embryonic police state.”
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