Surveillance Deal: Same Bad Law, New Bad Arguments – Roll Call

Surveillance Deal: Same Bad Law, New Bad Arguments

By Madison Powers, Guest Columnist and CQ Staff

Posted July 9, 2008 at 12:00am

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
has endorsed it
signed off on it
lacked the authority
should be held accountable
some companies
Madison Powers is Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. His columns appear regularly on Wednesday in CQ Politics.

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