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From https://www.businessinsider.com/mcconnell-patriot-act-renewal-fbi-web-browsing-history-2020-5
Aaron Holmes
14 hours ago
• The Senate is expected to vote Wednesday to renew the 2001 Patriot Act, and Mitch McConnell is pushing an amendment to the law that would expand the FBI's surveillance powers.
• An amendment proposed by McConnell would, for the first time ever, let the FBI collect records on Americans' web-browsing and search histories without a warrant.
• Another amendment drafted by McConnell would give the attorney general more oversight of FBI investigations into political operatives, like the recent FBI investigation into the Trump campaign.
• A bipartisan group of senators proposed a measure to block the FBI from accessing people's web-browsing history without a warrant, but it failed by one vote on Wednesday.
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DFW
(54,378 posts)A Democratic-led FBI under this rule could browse the activity of all Republicans in public office. All their little sex fetishes, treatments for VD, online stock trades, extra-marital affairs in motel rooms in Bethesda, whatever.
Do Republicans want the FBI to have THAT kind of power? No wonder some of them voted against it.
no_hypocrisy
(46,100 posts)rampartc
(5,407 posts)the house will vote aye. probably by unanimous consent.
essme
(1,207 posts)use the phrase "Big Brother."
Yeah.
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)But they love and worship their tyrant
EndlessWire
(6,526 posts)"Fuck Republicans" that I can visit once a day. Doesn't have to have any content...
spin
(17,493 posts)Congress, we would find them quite interesting.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)That's some Patriot Act level bullshit right there. All these damn Republicans all over the country pitching tempter tantrums and carrying their guns like security blankets and they will say nary a peep about this. I don't ever want to hear one more of those pieces of shit say a goddamn thing about civil rights being violated if they don't speak up against this. Then again, they claim to be pro life, but cannot wait to shoot up another mall, school, or black person just for existing. EWB Existing While Black.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Barr, McConnell and Trump are working together to consolidate power!
jaxexpat
(6,827 posts)I still cringe when I hear the term 'Dept. of Homeland Security'.
Who didn't have a chill down their spine when the little w came out with that noxious mixture of schmaltz and jackboots?
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)requires information flow
Takket
(21,565 posts)That some FBI agent wrote a note about Flynn lying as if it is the greatest trampling of civil rights in history.
Submariner
(12,504 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)exposed also, for her drug pedaling father paying Moscow Mitch to stretch laws protecting him.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Scalded Nun
(1,236 posts)Besides, what country or group could cause us more damage than we have to ourselves for the last 17+ years.
sellitman
(11,606 posts)Any lurkers want to chime in?
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Lost 59 - 37
Blue Owl
(50,362 posts)n/t
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)"how to fuck-up Mitch McConnell."