Posted on 06/02/2015 3:46:12 PM PDT by GIdget2004
Of the Presidential candidates:
Sanders - NO Rubio - NO Cruz - YES Graham - Did not vote
(Excerpt) Read more at senate.gov ...
Do my eyes deceive me? Ted Cruz voting for the patriot act II?
For a guy with a great conservative schtick, he sure seems to like to be on the side of the globalists and surveillance state.
CIA, FBI, NSA don’t care at all what the law or the constitution say and they don’t have to because they will never be sent to prison no matter what they do. Do you think they were looking for terrorists when they hacked Diane Feinstein’s computer?
Ted Cruz was a co-sponsor of this bill, along with Senators Lee, Heller, Leahy, Durbin, Schumer and Franken, among others.
Shrug. Lee did as well. But, he has a pretty new NSA data center in his state.
Please remove my name from your ping list.
Gator113
McCain, Toomey , Hatch , Bernie Sanders and McConnell are all nays
The Republicans that voted Nay on this voted for the most part to renew the Patriot Act. The USA Freedom Act requires court approval of phone records being collected. This bill does not authorize everyone’s phone data being collected.
> Do my eyes deceive me? Ted Cruz voting for the patriot act II?
For a guy with a great conservative schtick, he sure seems to like to be on the side of the globalists and surveillance state.
I guess it depends on “what’s in it”. National security is a balacing act between prevention of acts of terrorism and the appication and usage of intel of value and relevance disseminated out to those with a “need to know” but only to prevent said acts of terrorism. Where it crosses the line is when information of a personal derogatory nature is developed during the intel collection process that has no effect on national securty is dessiminated to those to use as a political tool for unfair advantage and control (i.e. blackmail, coersion to commit acts of treason or do their bidding, forced resignation when treasonous acts are committed, etc...). I do think we have some exploiting that very system
They need an audit trail for anyone that requests the information. Actually they’re already supposed to but I bet its being skirted and the end beneficiaries of the intel isn’t being divulged...
> Do my eyes deceive me? Ted Cruz voting for the patriot act II?
For a guy with a great conservative schtick, he sure seems to like to be on the side of the globalists and surveillance state.
I guess it depends on “what’s in it”. National security is a balancing act between prevention of acts of terrorism and the appication and usage of intel of value and relevance disseminated out to those with a “need to know” but only to prevent said acts of terrorism. Where it crosses the line is when information of a personal derogatory nature is developed during the intel collection process that has no effect on national securty is dessiminated to those to use as a political tool for unfair advantage and control (i.e. blackmail, coersion to commit acts of treason or do their bidding, forced resignation when treasonous acts are committed, etc...). I do think we have some exploiting that very system
They need an audit trail for anyone that requests the information. Actually they’re already supposed to but I bet its being skirted and the end beneficiaries of the intel isn’t being divulged...
The ping list? Not the ping list!
You’re off.
That’s why I’m off all ping lists.
Very tempting.The melodrama and angst gets tedious. Its a pinglist that I haven’t pinged or thought about in maybe a year. Anyway, prompted me to clean off the page. Now its a blank canvas.
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