It is the UTAH data center run by the NSA.
Your pictures, social media, search history, tax records, property, firearms, purchases, travel history, toll road receipts, it is all there waiting for release by the FISA 'court.'
Privacy is dead.
Posted on 12/13/2023 11:04:34 PM PST by george76
In a last-minute rush to sanction spending before the end of the year, the Senate enacted a $886 billion defense spending proposal Wednesday, sponsored by President Joe Biden, that includes financing for Ukraine, yearly pay hikes for personnel, and most controversially, a reauthorization of the the National Defense Authorization Act..
The NDAA funds Pentagon objectives such as training and equipment. The Act was approved by a bipartisan majority of 87-13 in the Senate. For the last 61 years in a row, Congress has advanced the must-pass defense budget measure.
“At a time of huge trouble for global security, doing the defense authorization bill is more important than ever,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor Wednesday. “Passing the NDAA enables us to hold the line against Russia, stand firm against the Chinese Communist Party and ensure America’s defense remain state of the art at all times.”
The package now moves to the House, where some conservative Republicans have vowed to derail it after legislators removed disputed elements that would have changed the Pentagon’s abortion policy and provide certain so-called “transgender” medical procedures.
The NDAA approved by the Senate is a compromise version of the budget package passed by the House earlier this year. The House version includes elements aimed at the Pentagon’s transgender health care regulations, as well as an amendment to repeal a Pentagon policy that reimburses out-of-state travel for service members who have abortions.
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The Senate National Defense Authorization Act has measures that will:
Authorize $844.3 billion for the Department of Defense and $32.4 billion for national security programs within the Department of Energy.
Support Defense department activities among Australia, United Kingdom, and the United States.
Extend the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative through fiscal year 2027 and authorize the full budget request of $300 million in fiscal year 2024.
Provide a 5.2 percent pay raise for military service members and the Defense department civilian workforce.
Support requested funding for naval vessels, combat aircraft, armored vehicles, weapon systems and munitions.
Renew the secretive FISA Court and rubber-stamp mass warrantless surveillance.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) was one of just thirteen senators that rejected the NDAA.
The Senate just voted to waive the point of order against the NDAA,” Lee said prior to the bill’s passage. “35 of us opposed the motion to waive. We needed only 41 to prevent this outcome, and to remove FISA 702 from the NDAA.”
“This is not good,” he added. “The House should #StopTheNDAA.”
Earlier, Sen. Lee called out the “warrantless backdoor surveillance” of Americans.
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Edward Snowden, a famous whistleblower who once worked at the National Security Agency, also reacted to the NDAA’s renewal.
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“By 6 votes, the Senate just forced through a violation of your constitutional rights,” he remarked. “Now all eyes turn to the House. They will put it to a vote TOMORROW.”
“Call your representative, because this is your last chance. Tell them ‘#StopTheNDAA’,” he said.
The NDAA included a provision to prolong Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) until mid-April, avoiding its expiration at the end of the year as Congress debates four rival measures to renew and alter the legislation.
Obviously the House has been in chaos and our legislative business has been disrupted. So I think it’s an appropriate extension that gives us the ability to address 702. By extending it, we avoid the calamity,” caused by a lapse of an important national security tool, Chair Mike Turner (R-Ohio) told reporters last week.
Section 702 theoretically only permits the government to eavesdrop on foreigners in other countries, but whistleblowers have pointed out how the NDAA provision still allows for backdoor searches of Americans’ information if they converse with a target.
No doubt a slippery slope, good to know what real bad guys are doing, but current government as a much different definition of bad guys than a patriotic government would.
Still, they rarely seem to anticipate any actual bad acts, so all this communication they monitor must be a combination of venting and false leads. Perhaps they should reassess who is being watched, even the hamas actions of Oct 7 went entirely unanticipated by U.S. intel, but if I want to talk to another libertarian conservative on the phone, that is no doubt a huge red flag. Who knows what we could get up to doing, enforcing the constitution, restoring credible elections, the list goes on. Dangerous people, libertarian conservatives.
... Pentagon’s abortion policy ...
umm, wut?
It is the UTAH data center run by the NSA.
Your pictures, social media, search history, tax records, property, firearms, purchases, travel history, toll road receipts, it is all there waiting for release by the FISA 'court.'
Privacy is dead.
We managed to get through WWII and the Cold War without mass domestic warrantless spying. This unAmerican crap is designed for one thing only, population control and for political blackmail and domestic black op propaganda smears.
Disband the whole damned thing. Thanks W... freakin’ idiot.
From age and experience, when D.C. acts in a bi-partisan way, they are normally screwing us all.
The Stasi existed for 40 years. They collected between 900 million and one billion pages of data. The NSA collects that every two days.
America has turned into the most pervasive internal spying operation in all of human history. It’s not even close.
They say it’s to keep us safe, but they leave the border WIDE OPEN. They release prisoners. They let BLM/Antifa/and Palestinian terrorists take over the streets.
FISA and 702 is un-American.
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Tell them your state and zip, they’ll connect you.
MESSAGE Tell them you want FISA 702 stripped from the NDAA.
REFERENCES
<><> “Deep State Surveillance Authorization” in Defense
Bill (NDAA); FISA 702 was used to spy on candidate Trump
<><>The censorship group, NewsGuard, received a $750,000 taxpayer-funded grant from the Department of Defense in the latest National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
<><>A govt organization suspected of having political bias, is unconstitutional.
The US government cannot support that w/ tax dollars.
<><>And this very pertinent point regarding the “outsourcing of censorship.”
<><>NDAA SECTION 1532 “That which government is constitutionally
prohibited from doing, cannot be contracted with others to do.”
<><>Congress must make sure that Section 1532 is preserved
in the final version of the NDAA and that FISA 702 is removed.
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The big question might be that, with the increased latitude, how quickly will FR come under detailed scrutiny...
Maybe the best spots on the interment-camp trains can be obtained via early purchase...
ok Pollyanna
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) warned in an interview with Breitbart News Daily that the alleged short-term extension of a deep state surveillance law could extend it well into 2025.
Lee spoke to Breitbart News Daily host Mike Slater as members of the “Firm,” or the collective that is Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), House Majority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), have ruled that they would put a short-term extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). This controversial surveillance law will expire in just a few short weeks.
As the Utah senator explained, although the text of the legislation would allow Section 702 to continue to April 19, lawmakers hope to strike a compromise to reauthorize Section 702 with reforms.
Lee called the “Firm” argument that this would only amount to a short-term extension of Section 702 “deceptive,” as the intelligence agencies could likely get certification right before the April deadline to keep operating for another year.
So is our republic.
Already happened 23+ years ago.
“Privacy is dead.”
There is no slippery slope toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
Alan K. Simpson (1931- ), US Senator.
“But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government.
Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, March 4, 1837.
“Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
Frederick Douglass.
“So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.”
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet (1694-1778).
“What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”
Patrick Henry
Damn folks, guess all those calls to your Senators didn’t work. Imagine that. Those that didn’t vote for it were planned well ahead and had nothing to do with voter outrage. It’s all theatrics.
I heard someone reading how many times it says the house recedes. They are cowards.
The NDAA’s ‘Warrantless Backdoor Surveillance’
It’s getting as bad as China they know your every move.
No one at all is surprised by this.
They do not give a damn about the constitution.
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