Press Releases
Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami
202-226-7616
02/16/2008
Pelosi, Reid Joint Statement on FISA
"The Protect America Act will expire only because the
President and congressional Republicans refused to approve an extension of that
law. Their true concern here is not
national security. Rather, they want to
protect the financial interests of telecommunications companies and avoid
judicial scrutiny of their warrantless wiretapping program.
"Congressional Democrats will continue to work on a
bipartisan basis to finalize a strong law.
As we do, there should be no question in anyone's mind that
"In particular, the law protects telecommunication carriers, and we will ensure that no lawfully cooperating carrier is disadvantaged by the President's decision to block a brief extension of the Protect America Act."