Evening, John.
Posted on 05/31/2016 4:15:14 PM PDT by John Semmens
The 2017 Intelligence Authorization Act would enable the FBI to obtain anyone's email records without a court order. All the agency would need is a National Security Letter, which would allow the FBI get information from companies without their customers knowing they were being investigated. The bill is co-sponsored by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) and Vice Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif).
"If we want the government to protect us we must let go of our obsession with personal privacy," Sen. Feinstein urged. "The police are consummate professionals, not nosy busybodies. Unless you're doing something wrong you have nothing to fear."
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore), the lone dissenting voice on the 15-member Senate committee, said he wasn't reassured by "the bland assumption that government can do no evil. History is replete with incidences of government spying on its citizens for the purpose of repressing dissent and accumulating power. Under our Constitution the Fifth Amendment was expressly intended to require a dispassionate judge to assess the justification before police officials were granted permission to intrude into private matters."
Sen. Burr wondered whether "Sen. Wyden might be unduly paranoid. Doesn't the bipartisan sponsorship of this legislation provide sufficient reassurance of its benevolent intent?" and suggested that "the numerous examples of illegal intrusion into private affairs by government agencies has shown itself to be unacceptably dangerous. Giving these intrusions a statutory foundation will protect government employees from unnecessary impediments to their law-enforcement duties and undesirable repercussions from breaking the law."
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They could already do that. The only difference is they could use the information in court.
Yeah, we’re so screwed.
FBI: “Oh! Were we supposed to wait for permission?!Well, please accept our most sincere apology, going back retroactively for, uhmm, since the Hoover Administration.
Sorry!!”
Not saying that they have the right, though.
Most everything I do can be looked at without the FISA court anyway.
Bill Clinton made echelon spy program legal. We are spied on by Canada or Britain which is legal and they give the information to the us in exchange for information on their people. NSA spies on us and if key words come up they take action immediately otherwise they have to wait 6 months to take action. Orwell was an optimist.
Except Hillary's
Guess I better start emailing all the stuff to various people on hildabeast they seem to be ignoring. Key words: corruption,huma, weiner,foundation,orgy island, etc.
(like the powers that be aren’t monitoring FR and like minded sites.) Hi there, AG Lynch
Yep.
Best to have an email provider outside the Five Eyes and in a country with real data privacy laws, unlike the United Snakes of Amurica. Even China is a better choice than the US.
The WOT is a fraud, used only to control YOU.
Not to worry, the feebs will ignore the last 30 years of ignoring the Clinton Crime Syndicate, and GET RIGHT ON that investigation, because they are super patriots.
Mega Hurl, ooops, there goes a kidney!
Strip club sticky floors are cleaner than DOJ & USGOV.
Evening, John.
Now all they need to do is hire another two hundred million employees to read it.
They don’t need to read all of it... they just need to read that mail from people who they think are enemies of the state.
Criticize the government? Let’s see what you’ve been up to lately...
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