Posted on 05/22/2015 9:29:15 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Attorney General Loretta Lynch believes the United States will be “less safe” if Congress doesn’t reauthorize the Patriot Act.
Speaking to “CBS This Morning,” Lynch expressed concerns about not allowing the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ phone records.
“My biggest fear … is that we will lose important eyes on people who have made it clear … that their mission is to harm American people here and abroad,” Lynch said
She continued, “I think that we run the risk … of essentially being less safe. I think that we lose important tools. I think that we lose the ability to intercept these communications, which have proven very important in cases that we have built in the past. I am very concerned that the American people will be unprotected if this law expires. I’m hopeful, however, that Congress, who I know is working on this issue, will come to a resolution.”
Lynch’s comments come as the Senate is set to vote today on the expiring sections of the Patriot Act.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has opposed the House bill to reauthorize the post-Sept. 11 law while significantly changing the NSA’s bulk collection, preferring to simply renew the Patriot Act. But he told reporters Tuesday that he will allow a vote on the measure that passed the House overwhelmingly last week and has the backing of the Obama administration.
“Regardless of what the House’s position may be, we have an obligation to deal with the Patriot Act,” the Kentucky Republican said. “And we’re going to deal with it this week. And it’s my view that letting it expire is not a responsible thing to do.”
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA program spurred some Republicans and Democrats to demand an end to the bulk collection.
(Excerpt) Read more at washington.cbslocal.com ...
How much is the Patriot Act costing us poor, overly federal taxed?
Anyone even hesitant about it was savaged as a troll.
““My biggest fear … is that we will lose important eyes on people who have made it clear … that their mission is to harm American people here and abroad,” Lynch said “
Really?
Perhaps this should be corrected for reality...
““My biggest fear … is that we have to get a legal warrant - in an actual court - appearing in front of a real judge,” Lynch said “
“Attorney General Loretta Lynch believes the United States will be “less safe” if Congress doesn’t reauthorize the Patriot Act”
And she knows this because????
Was Norah O’Donnell hitting on this woman or something, that wasn’t an interview, it was a girls softball game
Less safe than what?
GWB + almost every member of Congress from both parties. And most here on FR at the time supported it, too.
It sounded good on paper but was never that useful in practice. Bush put too much federal lee-way in it to insure our Constitutional rights and having Obama in the WH makes it all the more important to scrap it.
Because she says so. Now sit down and shut up, or we’ll use your data against you.
What she means, of course, is that it may become more difficult for the government to maintain its watch on conservatives and conservative organizations.
Reason #1 NOT to renew the "Patriot" Act.
Less safe?
A message for the drooling dimwits?
Since when does the GD corrupt Fedgov care about the safety of the American homeland and it’s borders?
These people are so FOS.
The most dangerous thing American’s face is it’s own government and the corrupt controlling people who’ve made it this way.
Loretta Lynch: US Will Be ‘Less Safe’ If Congress Doesn’t Reauthorize Patriot Act
"According to the FBI, the Patriot Act hasn’t lead to the apprehension of a single terrorist EVER."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/21/fbi-admits-patriot-act-snooping-powers-didnt-crack/
(...FYI, ... about 300 TSA agents have been arrested for theft.)
Check out article, and # 3.
Hey Lynch you Ass,with you and your boss we are defenseless now,you are all Muslim sympathizers so put a sock in it
That will stop soon.
Maher may be a no-talent dickwad, but he is smart enough to know he would be an UNEMPLOYED no-talent dickwad if he didn’t spout the party line on HBO
Who’s definition of safe?
By “less safe” without the Patriot Act, does she mean our borders will be wide open for Isis terror cells to be settled throughout the US? Without Homeland inSecurity, how would we ever guess that Christians and constitutionalists are terrorists?
Gee, losing our constitution to the unPatriot Act has made us sooooo safe! Please, don’t throw us in the brier patch.
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