Hoekstra Loves FISA and Telcos

Via Chris Dodd's incredibly cool Internet Director Tim Tagaris: Pete Hoekstra 'demands' Chris Dodd donate his recent contributions to charity.

Last week Dodd vowed to filibuster the latest iteration of FISA, wherein Republicans are offering retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies who illegally turned over telephone records to the government. The whole thing turned into a bit of a blogswarm, and by the end Joe Biden and Barack Obama had vowed to filibuster, too. When the Netroots found out about Dodd's filibuster threat, the money came pouring in, and the Dodd campaign banked $150,000 in one day. Now The Lying Dutchman seems to think it's dirty money (and money from Erik Prince's sister isn't?) and wants Dodd to donate it to charity.

Sez Petey: "Al Qaeda is not going to give us a break just because we're having an election,"

The article isn't very clear about Hoekstra's thought process. Apparently Hoek just thinks Dodd is playing politics and putting our lives in danger for the sake of winning an election...which is insane. Dodd is a genuine guy, and to accuse him of wanting to filibuster a bill as a means of winning the White House is just stupid. He's going to filibuster it because it's a bad bill, and lets the telcos off the hook for violating the existing FISA law. It's The Lying Dutchman who's playing politics here.

And Pete...spare us the tired old lines about al Qaeda. If the next words out of your mouth are "We're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here," so help me I will SCREAM.

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