Wary of making the debate between liberty and security into a campaign issue, Congressional Democrats appear ready to retreat in their years-long effort to instill some sort of accountability on the Bush administration and its enablers in the telecommunications industry for their extra-legal surveillance of Americans.
Congressional leaders have reached an accord with the White House on the update to a controversial surveillance law that essentially legalizes the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program and seems likely to let off the hook the phone companies that facilitated it.
[From The Raw Story | Feingold: Wiretap deal 'no compromise, it's capitulation']
(Emphasis emphatically mine)
Translation: Screw you, Americans, we'll do anything to get elected, including sell your sorry butt.
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