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The silence from the left is deafening.

President Obama signs a 5 year extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillence Act (also know as FISA). Where is the outrage from the left?

This past week marked the extension of FISA, also known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillence Act.  The Senate passed a 5 year extension of the law and President Obama gave the final approval.  Now, as a matter of full disclosure, I support this law and have supported it from the first time I heard about it.

The most controversial part of this law is the authority it gives the federal government to monitor phone calls coming into this country from foreign countries. I don't have a problem with it. Afterall, everyone entering this country from another country is subject to a warrantless search so phone calls shouldn't be different.

What is stunning, is the silence from the left.  I recall when George W Bush was President, the left made political hay about this program even though it was a program that had already existed for a long time.  Heck, you had Code Pink and other left wing nut jobs protesting and trying to make an argument that Achmed the Terrorist had a right to privacy when he was making phone calls to terorrist cells within the United States.  However, to the left, I guess it is just fine when Democrats continue the same program. I guess Bush and Cheney had it right when they approved this program.  Seems funny that Obama is continuing the same programs that Bush and Cheney did. I guess they were smart. Thank goodness Obama sees the value in this law in protecting this country. Unfortunately, his followers are willing to pressure a Republican President into scrapping this law in order to make politcal hay.

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Just another example of why I believe that the left in this country are some of the biggest hypocrites around.

You all have a Happy New Year! 

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