Progressives?
The senate viotes to extend the partiot act follows:
Yes: Republicans 41, Democrats 30
NO: Republicans 4, Democrats 18
the house:
Yes: Republicans 196, Democrats 54
No: Republicans 31, Democrats 122
Progressives my ass.
As president, Obama will:
Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. Guantanamo has become a recruiting tool for our enemies. The legal framework behind Guantanamo has failed completely, resulting in only one conviction. President Bushs own Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, wants to close it. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, wants to close it. The first step to reclaiming Americas standing in the world has to Paid for by Obama for America be closing this facility. As president, Barack Obama will close the detention facility at Guantanamo. He will reject the Military Commissions Act, which allowed the U.S. to circumvent Geneva Conventions in the handling of detainees. He will develop a fair and thorough process based on the Uniform Code of Military Justice to distinguish between those prisoners who should be prosecuted for their crimes, those who cant be prosecuted but who can be held in a manner consistent with the laws of war, and those who should be released or transferred to their home countries.
Revise the PATRIOT Act. Barack Obama believes that we must provide law enforcement the tools it needs to investigate, disrupt, and capture terrorists, but he also believes we need real oversight to avoid jeopardizing the rights and ideals of all Americans. There is no reason we cannot fight terrorism while maintaining our civil liberties. Unfortunately, the current administration has abused the powers given to it by the PATRIOT Act. A March 2007 Justice Department audit found the FBI improperly and, in some cases, illegally used the PATRIOT Act to secretly obtain personal information about American citizens. As president, Barack Obama would revisit the PATRIOT Act to ensure that there is real and robust oversight of tools like National Security Letters, sneak-and-peek searches, and the use of the material witness provision.
Eliminate Warrantless Wiretaps. Barack Obama opposed the Bush Administrations initial policy on warrantless wiretaps because it crossed the line between protecting our national security and eroding the civil liberties of American citizens. As president, Obama would update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to provide greater oversight and accountability to the congressional intelligence committees to prevent future threats to the rule of law.
Reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act
In February of 2010, President Obama signed an extension of the PATRIOT Act. The extension continued three key aspects of the PATRIOT Act:
Authorize court-approved roving wiretaps that permit surveillance on multiple phones.
Allow court-approved seizure of records and property in anti-terrorism operations.
Permit surveillance against a so-called lone wolf, a non-U.S. citizen engaged in terrorism who may not be part of a recognized terrorist group
Protect America Act of 2007
Barack Obama on Homeland SecurityThe Protect America Act of 2007 dealt with certain aspects of electronic surveillance and the overall war on terror. In the vote to pass the legislation, most Republicans supported the bill and only about 1/3 of the Democrats supported the legislation. Barack Obama voted against the Protect America Act of 2007.
Barack Obama voted against the Protect America Act of 2007.
You are so full of shit it ain't even funny.