The Absurd Report

The last two weeks I have written about how Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) and the House Majority’s left-wing leadership decided to go on a 12-day vacation instead of renewing legislation that allowed our Intelligence agencies to easily monitor the communications of terrorists overseas. As a result, the legislation expired, crippling our intelligence gathering efforts.

I wrote, “This abdication of responsibility by such a high-ranking member of our government has been the most amazing anti-national security action by Congress in decades.” Judging by the e-mails and comments I received, many of you agreed.

It turns out we are not the only ones. Not by a long shot.

Today, American Solutions is releasing new polling data that show that by a three-to-one margin (71 to 23), Americans believe Congress should have taken action before leaving Washington to make sure the Protect America Act did not expire.

Additionally, the data show that Americans agree by a 3.5-to-one margin (74 to 21) that companies that assist the United States government in tracking down terrorists should be protected from lawsuits related to that assistance. This is one of the core issues at stake in the debate over the Protect America Act, as Pelosi and the left-wing House Majority’s leadership have chosen to side with the trial lawyers over our safety.

As American Solutions has done with all its data, the full results, including crosstabs, have been released to all Americans, for free, online at AmericanSolutions.com.

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House irresponsible to not update foreign surveillance act By Sen. Mitch McConnell

Here are excerpts from the article…

If a Marine in Iraq captures a terrorist from a previously unidentified terror group, our agents will not be free to call the phone numbers in this terrorist’s laptop right away. If a call is placed to one of the numbers in this terrorist’s laptop and routed through U.S. phone lines, our agents will have to apply for a warrant, even though the people on the other end of the phone are half a world away, the terrorist with the laptop is not an American, and all this takes place in a theater of war.

Because the law as written does not protect phone companies from lawsuits for helping the government trace terrorist calls, those companies now face crushing lawsuits. Such litigation may be good for trial lawyers, but it jeopardizes the financial future of the phone companies - who are only trying to aid the war effort in good faith.

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SideBear: There is no higher responsibility for Congress than to keep this country’s citizens safe. Should something happen while the Democrats and Nancy Pelosi play political games that responsibility will directly at their doorstep.

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