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星期四， 2008年7月10日
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今天，在大胆攻击在公民自由和私密权，参议院通过了违犯第四个校正并且消灭所有意味深长的角色为政府监视司法失察的一个违反宪法的国内暗中侦察的法案。 FISA校正行动2008年由表决69到28批准和预计短期签字入法律由布什总统。 这张票据根本上合法化在2005年12月显露的总统的不合法的warrantless窃听节目在纽约时代周刊以前。

“再次，国会眨眼睛并且屈服了到总统的恐惧mongering。 以今天表决，政府在美国人给了扩展它的力量的绿灯暗中侦察，并且跑不人道在宪法”， D.说安东尼。 Romero，美国公民自由联合的执行董事。 “这立法将给对无辜的没有保证的美国人的政府自由自在和未经检查的通入’国际通信。 这是不仅违反宪法，但绝对非美国式的”。

FISA校正行动通过允许外国情报机构监视法院(国库)回顾仅常规手续几乎取出内脏政府监视失察为暗中侦察而不是各自的保证。 国库不会告诉任何具体关于谁实际上将被窃听，从而咬边任何意味深长的角色为法院和违犯第四个校正的保护反对不合情理的查寻和夺取。

票据更加进一步通过批准政府继续监视节目使法院回顾平凡，在政府的一般暗中侦察的规程是由国库以后找到的不足或违反宪法。 政府有当局窃听通过整个上诉，然后保留并且使用什么信息同时被会集了。 供应被誉为主要“让步”由票据的拥护者要求调查由监督暗中侦察的活动的四个代办处总检查员。 但不坐司法制度或情报委员会的议员不会被保证对代办处的通入’报告。

票据根本上准予绝对追溯自免疫力通过保证法案解雇促进总统的warrantless窃听节目在过去七年期间即将发生反对那些公司的电信公司。 The test for the companies’ right to immunity is not whether the government certifications they acted on were actually legal – only whether they were issued. Because it is public knowledge that certifications were issued, all of the pending cases will be summarily dismissed. This means Americans may never learn the truth about what the companies and the government did with our private communications. 

“With one vote, Congress has strengthened the executive branch, weakened the judiciary and rendered itself irrelevant,” said Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. “This bill – soon to be law – is a constitutional nightmare. Americans should know that if this legislation is enacted and upheld, what they say on international phone calls or emails is no longer private. The government can listen in without having a specific reason to do so. Our rights as Americans have been curtailed and our privacy can no longer be assumed.”

In advance of the president’s signature, the ACLU announced its plan to challenge the new law in court.

“This fight is not over. We intend to challenge this bill as soon as President Bush signs it into law,” said Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project. “The bill allows the warrantless and dragnet surveillance of Americans’ international telephone and email communications. It plainly violates the Fourth Amendment.”

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