For the Bushies, even this was too much, and now thanks to the Congress, even this isn't required.
That this happens now, under an allegedly Democratic majority Congress, proves the illusion of this faux democracy .
The FISA Act became law after the government was caught spying on, and interfering with, the legal, constitutional activities of Americans during the ‘60s and ‘70s.
Government didn't come forward and confess their violations. A group of anonymous activists raided the FBI headquarters in media, PA, and uncovered hundreds of files of activists and radicals all across the nation – and revealed these to the press .
The resultant scandal led to hearings in Congress (known as the Church Committee hearings), which uncovered government crimes against Americans.
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