Human Events Praises Bond for Efforts Against "Terrorist Bill of Rights"

Conservatives are fuming over moves to revise and restrict foreign surveillance of telephone calls made and e-mails sent by possible terrorists.

Jed Babbin of Human Events highlights Missouri Senator Kit Bond in his column, for his work on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Babbin writes he's never seen Bond "more animated" on any other issue.

From the piece:

"I wonder if Missourians -- or any Americans -- really appreciate how important Bond’s work really is. Before the FISA amendments he shepherded through in August became law, we had missed (according to one intelligence community source) roughly six months of intelligence data on communications by terrorists to people in the United States. Which meant we had been blind for about that amount of time."

"Really blind. If that information isn’t obtained through intercepted communications, it’s not going to be obtained at all. Intelligence is the single most important tool we have to disrupt terrorists and prevent them from attacking successfully. If we don’t get it we are vulnerable. Horribly so. Kit Bond is working hard to keep the blinders off our intelligence gatherers.
Bond eagerly shot down some of the misconceptions the Democrats and their amen chorus in the media are selling on the FISA amendments just completed before the August recess. First, did the August amendments expand FISA to make it easier to eavesdrop on Americans? “No, that’s not true,” said Bond. In fact, all the August amendment did was fix a new problem to restore FISA coverage and restore FISA to the way it functioned beforehand."