Posted on 05/30/2015 5:54:05 AM PDT by NRx
More than four years ago, Congress passed, and President Obama signed, the Patriot Sunsets Extension Act of 2011.
Since that day, May 26, 2011, it’s been known that key provisions of our nation’s counterterrorism surveillance programs are set to expire this June 1.
That is why Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and I worked diligently on a bipartisan and bicameral basis to produce the USA Freedom Act.
As with any legislation, the USA Freedom Act is not perfect. It does end the bulk collection of phone records and other data by our nation’s intelligence agencies, but it also represents compromises by the intelligence community and civil libertarians. The bill is the product of thousands of hours of work.
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You know, it really bothers me that we’re compromising on how much tyranny they can enforce on us. I’m sick of compromising my Liberties and Rights away.
The Government needs to compromise a bit. Since they like spying on us so much, what functions and agencies of the Government are they willing to remove? IRS? ATF? DEA? They need to pick at least three $1 billion or more a year agencies and their functions to eliminate. This means, the Government doesn’t move the functions over somewhere else but entirely stops those functions and removes them from Federal Government jurisdiction.
If this mob is FOR it. . . this is more than enough reason to be AGAINST it.
No kidding. Also, if we are not going to secure our borders, what is the point?
Bipartisan
I’m willing to accept Mike Lee’s opinion on this. I don’t like the WOT and what it’s doing to our liberties, but we’re not going to get back to Constitutional liberties in a single go.
Work to do what? I'm not interested in compromises about my privacy and freedom from government surveillance and the potential oppression that comes with because I don't think they have any business to vacuum up every RF and digital bit they can from our lives.
If that's what they want, then I don't want any part of it, nor the representatives that endorse it.
You don’t move forward when every step you take is some equivocated back step.
Lee working with the likes of Conyers and Leahy is as bad as Rubio getting in bed with Schumer. Worse, maybe; I had higher hopes for Lee.
Et tu, Mike?
I worked diligently on a bipartisan and bicameral basis
A double “bi”.... We are screwed and where in the hell is my dictionary for this bicameral.
Is that a double hump camel?
This is disappointing. Sen. Lee does not present any argument or evidence for why this bill should pass. Only that we must keep doing what we’ve been doing, that people worked really really hard on it, and basically, all legislation sucks because it’s a compromise.
Heard this all before.
Sen. Lee, make a rational argument about why we should give up freedom and privacy. This is a big time fail.
USA “Freedom” Act, huh?
I’ll bet my last dollar that this bill is about anything but “freedom”.
These liars in DC always declare themselves by the phony titles of their bills.
And whatever Obama is for, I’m against.
I want the whole Patriot Act on the burn pile but it looks like we ain’t getting it. So getting rid of the bulk data collection is a start.
More comprehensive tyranny from the thugs in DC. Left, right, middle - they all seem to love tyranny if it is for the children. Funny how none of this garbage would have have stopped anything.
Well said.
....even after all those ‘thousand of hours of work’ did the act stop the ‘boston bombers’ ??? NO, so what is sooo important that the NSA wants to know who you called, when you called, what you talked about, where you went, how long were you there, who else do you know, do you go to church, did you go to Denny’s for breakfast, how long were you there, who did you talk to????
This ‘act’ needs to die !!!!!
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