[USS Alaska]

demonRATs are traitors. peloser should be tried for sedition, convicted and shot.

[griswold3]

I would like the Republicans to treat this bill as if Hillary Clinton were president. (ugh)
Who’s doing the oversight?
This is a necessary piece of legislation. The communications (cell phones and emails) between suspected terrorists that are currently overseas can be routed through US entities thus making them ‘domestic’!!

[angkor]

Pen register programs such as the falsely-named “domestic wiretap program” have been validated by the SCOTUS for at least 50 years. Pen register programs receive such a low level of judicial scrutiny that they are traditionally approved on-demand and without any demonstration of cause.

Why? Because:

SCOTUS asserted may years ago that telephone numbers ARE NOT the property of the consumer and do not warrant any particular privacy handling beyond what the PHONE COMPANIES determine.

If a SOCOM operator obtains a PDA or laptop from a known jihadi, and it has 1,000 telephone numbers, does it really make sense to file for 1,000 FISA subpoenae, and then another and another and yet another for each and every positive survaillance result? No, it doesn’t. It makes sense to file one subpoena for the whole program, or at worst one for every data collection resource e.g. for a laptop). You don’t then require yet more subpoeana for each derivative work prodduct and result.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Just posted this from the NY Times:

Deal Close on Wiretap Law, a Top Democrat Tells CNN