{"id":5443,"date":"2008-06-24T09:56:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T15:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=5443"},"modified":"2017-05-21T15:39:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T21:39:21","slug":"feingold-wiretap-deal-could-be-hiding-impeachable-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/feingold-wiretap-deal-could-be-hiding-impeachable-offense\/","title":{"rendered":"Feingold: Wiretap deal could be hiding &#8216;impeachable offense&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090710053639\/http:\/\/rawstory.com\/images\/new\/russfeingold041007.jpg\" align=\"left\"\/>Rawstory &#8212; The battle to protect Americans from warrantless wiretaps and hold telecommunications companies accountable is all but lost, Sen. Russ Feingold, a leading critic of President Bush&#8217;s likely illegal surveillance programs, said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;farce&#8221; of a surveillance law deal heralded by House Democratic leaders last week could permanently hide evidence of an &#8220;impeachable offense&#8221; on the part of President Bush, the Wisconsin Democrat said.<\/p>\n<p>Feingold spoke at the New America Foundation in Washington about the nation&#8217;s intelligence needs. He panned an update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that quickly passed in the House last week. The Senate is expected to follow suit this year, officially putting the Democratic-controlled Congress&#8217;s seal of approval on an administration backed gambit to essentially legalize Bush&#8217;s warrantless surveillance program while at the same time letting off the hook phone companies that critics say facilitated the contravention of current law.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do think this is a total farce with regard to the immunity [for telecommunications companies]. It basically guarantees the immunity,&#8221;\u009d Feingold said. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t simply have the impact of potentially allowing telephone companies to break the law. It may prevent us from ever getting to the core issue &#8220;\u00a6 which is the president ran an illegal program that could&#8217;ve been an impeachable offense.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080802212152\/http:\/\/rawstory.com:80\/news08\/2008\/06\/23\/feingold-farce-wiretap-deal-could-be-hiding-impeachable-offense\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawstory &#8212; The battle to protect Americans from warrantless wiretaps and hold telecommunications companies accountable is all but lost, Sen. Russ Feingold, a leading critic of President Bush&#8217;s likely illegal surveillance programs, said Monday. 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