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| 2007-07-26 |
| WASHINGTON — A provision aimed at providing whistleblower protection to Americans who report suspicious activity has advanced on Capitol Hill despite opposition from some Democrats, as top Republicans announced an agreement last night. The House Republican leader, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, and Rep. Peter King, a Republican of Long Island, said last night that they had reached agreement to include what has become known as the "John Doe" amendment in the final version of a major homeland security bill to implement the recommendations of the commission established to investigate the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Hey Zenster, feeling better? |
| Posted by:gromgoru |
| #2 Several blogs posted yesterday that the language has raised the bar on the protection. There must be "reasonable, objective evidence" that the baddies are in fact baddies. Sounds OK on the face of it but it is designed to allow scumbag lawyers (please excuse the the redundancy) to argue that it wasn't reasonable and therefore John Doe should be subject to harassment suits. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2007-07-26 14:21 |
| #1 I heard the price of getting the dems to agree to whistleblower protection was a serious dilution of the King-Lieberman language. Don't celebrate yet. In fact, I was half hoping the Dems would kill the whole thing so the Reps could keep proposing it each legislative session until fall of 2008 |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-07-26 12:08 |