Secret Text in Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access to Email Records

The Intercept ^ | May 26, 2016 | Jenna McLaughlin

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A provision snuck into the still-secret text of the Senate’s annual intelligence authorization would give the FBI the ability to demand individuals’ email data and possibly web-surfing history from their service providers without a warrant and in complete secrecy.

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It’s unclear how or when the provision was added, although Sens. Richard Burr, R-N.C., — the committee’s chairman — and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., have both offered bills in the past that would address what the FBI calls a gap and privacy advocates consider a serious threat to civil liberties.

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The grab for out 4th amendment rights are relentless, we are guilty until proven innocent. This crap is never ending.

[Paine in the Neck]

The Framers thought it important enough that we "...be secure in [our] persons, houses, papers, and effects..." that they enshrined the assertion in the Bill of Rights. The Senate now says "meh".

[blackdog]

And the #1 search filter used at the offices of the FBI to harvest data will be on line web forums that may discuss topics like government corruption and abuses.

You know, like Free Republic.

[Sir Napsalot]

bump

[rockrr]

As far as I know they’re doing this already.

[vette6387]

Richard Burr is a POS. Can’t figure out Cotton yet.

[VerySadAmerican]

Tom Cotton. Another tea party fraud.