Posted on 06/22/2016 6:05:47 PM PDT by Whenifhow
The Senate on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led effort to allow the FBI to access a persons Internet browsing history, email account data and other electronic communications without a court order in terrorism and spy cases.
The measure from Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) would have also extended the governments authority to conduct surveillance over potential lone wolf attackers.
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A majority of the Senate backed the proposal in a 58 to 38 vote, but it needed 60 votes to advance.
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The measure inspired a fierce backlash from privacy advocates, and may have faced resistance in the House, where lawmakers passed a bill earlier this year to limit the governments authority to access email.
Still, 11 Democrats and one independent senator who affiliates with them voted for the McCain and Burr proposal, while only six Republicans peeled away from their party to oppose the measure.
Earlier this year, FBI Director James Comey said that giving the government the ability to collect information about electronic communications such as a persons email account, how much time a person spends on various websites, and their Internet protocol address without obtaining a court order was the bureaus top priority.
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Senate Falls 1 Vote Short of Giving FBI Access to Browser Histories Without Court Order
Privacy advocates brace for another vote, say its time to flood Senate offices with phone calls.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-06-22/senate-falls-1-vote-short-of-giving-fbi-access-to-browser-histories-without-court-order
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Senate Falls 1 Vote Short of Giving FBI Access to Browser Histories Without Court Order
Privacy advocates brace for another vote, say its time to flood Senate offices with phone calls.
Obama and the left are closing Guantanamo because of alleged due process concerns of TERRORISTS caught on the battlefield.
Yet they have no due process concerns for LAW ABIDING AMERICANS who have not committed a single crime.
Speaks volumes as to where their sympathies lie.
Why, after the FBI’s abject failure to screen what’s his name, should they be given any more power? All the agents and their supervisors involved with this and the Boston Marathon case should be fired!
Because this will stop a muslim from killing infidels like the koran says to do?
McCAin let VETs die, armed al Qaeda, protected Hillary,
and started with the DNC the IRS Attacks on American
conservatives.
Imagine that across the country someone is found to have badly abused their kids:
CPS shows up at YOUR house, seizing YOUR kids. Why?
YOU, too, could do the same thing..!
WHY must non-Muslims be made to suffer for what Muslims do?
We need special rules and laws for Muslims.
DemocRATS! Trying to take away more rights of the American people.
They often come from arid places, and such a place is arid.
They will feel at home and can rape and bark at the moon, there.
Get islam out of this country, you stupid, useless bastards.
Stop attacking us, and get the islamic killers you brought here back to their godforsaken desert.
Due process will come in the way of shooting back at these tyrants.
It figures that the Manchurian Candidate, John McCain was behind this.
Just another right that liberals want to get rid of.
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Congress does not have the power to nullify the constitution.
No what a crappy idea. Slinky slimy ba$tards, always looking for an opening for not letting a good crisis go to waste. It’s not as if they can create pretty good profiles through other means. They HAVE to get a court order.
What’s the problem with getting a warrant?
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