FISA Oversight Not Good Enough

[azredhawk44]

The Gubmint isn't happy having a secret closed court oversee the actions of intelligence agencies, and is now marginalizing judicial oversight of the executive branch. :barf:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080124/ap_on_go_pr_wh/terrorist_surveillance

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday rejected an attempt to expand a secret court's oversight of government eavesdropping, sticking instead with a surveillance bill favored by the White House.

The bill, which failed 60-36, would have strengthened the oversight powers of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. It would have given the court the authority to monitor and enforce how the government protects the identities of innocent Americans whose communications may be inadvertently collected.