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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (25663)	7/10/2008 2:32:58 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

I don't like the vote but I understand it. That bill was bound to pass whether Obama voted for it or not. A No vote on that bill would have made Obama a target in some swing states like Virginia, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Ohio. It would allow his critics to question his national security credentials.

To: tejek who wrote (25663)	7/10/2008 8:54:23 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

FISA installs an Inspector General to investigate previous warrantless wiretaps. Obama: "It is a close call for me but I think the current legislation with exclusivity provision that says that a president -- whether George Bush, myself or John McCain -- can’t make up rationales for getting around FISA court, can’t suggest that somehow that there is some law that stands above the laws passed by Congress in engaging in warrantless wiretaps." Obama also said the FISA compromise was an improvement since it would put an "inspector general in place to investigate what happened previously gives us insight what has happened retrospectively. So, you know, that in my mind met my basic concerns and given that all the information I received is the underlying program itself actually is important and useful to American security as long as it has these constraints on them. I thought it was more important for me to go ahead and support this compromise." blogs.abcnews.com