Posted on 10/28/2013 2:54:18 PM PDT by B4Ranch
It’s been about four months since Edward Snowden’s leaks on the NSA’s blanket surveillance programs outraged privacy and Internet activists the world over, spawning real-life protests, online petitions, and high quality parody videos. Some countries got so mad, they even talked of leaving the US-run Internet. Now, the policy may actually change. Republican Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner will introduce an anti-NSA bill tomorrow in the House, and if it makes its winding way to becoming law, it will be a big step towards curtailing the NSA's bulk metadata collection.
Wisconsin Rep. Sensenbrenner, along with 60 co-sponsors, aims to amend one section of the Patriot Act, Section 215, in a bill known as the United and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet Collection, and Online Monitoring Act—also known by its less-clunky acronym version, the USA Freedom Act.
Section 215 has been used by the Bush and Obama administrations as justification for broad spying activities. Rep. Sensenbrenner—who actually authored the Patriot Act—likened these blanketed spying activities to abuse. "The NSA has gone far beyond the intent of the Patriot Act, particularly in the accumulation and storage of metadata," said Sensenbrenner in an interview with National Journal about the bill earlier this month. "Had Congress known that the Patriot Act had been used to collect metadata, the bill would have never been passed" as a response to the September 11th attacks.
Only an idiot could have drafted The Patriot Act and only a bigger one could have signed it.
And NOW we know why the DemocRats pushed it.
The senate won’t pass it and Obama won’t sign it. The Democrats are fascist to the core.
Designer of the Hammer is tryig to stop it from being used as a weapon.
No agency in the US government can be allowed unlimited powers. Time to reign in the NSA, CIA and IRS - for starters!
Now that we’ve found out that the NSA has even been recording Merkel’s phone conversations, it would seem pretty clear that the Obama admin. listened to just about every phone call that Romney and his campaign staff made during the last campaign. This makes it tough for the Republicans to run any kind of effective campaign the next time under these conditions.
Obama didn’t know. Maybe he should golf a little less and find out what he is doing. Blame it on the last guy. Oh, that’s right, YOU were the last guy Obama. This is your second term. Any carry over policies are yours.
Everyone who had a hand in the so-called Patriot Act is F@#@king traitor! I don’t give a rat’s azz if they have a D or an R next to their name. Every damn one of them may have just as well wiped his or her azz with Constitution. Screw this idiot’s buyer’s remorse. What the hell did he think was going to happen once this abomination became law?
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