Senate Committee Approves Continued Bulk Spying on Americans

[cali]

The Senate Intelligence Committee has adopted a “reform” plan addressing the National Security Agency’s (NSA) controversial domestic surveillance program that would allow it to continue, sparking outcry from civil libertarians and Democratic senators.

Sponsored by committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-California) and passed on an 11-4 vote, the legislation allows the NSA to collect and store phone metadata of millions of Americans for renewable 90-day periods.

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Trevor Timm wrote that “the bill codifies some of the NSA’s worst practices, would be a huge setback for everyone’s privacy, and it would permanently entrench the NSA’s collection of every phone record held by U.S. telecoms. We urge members of Congress to oppose it.”

Critics of Feinstein’s plan prefer legislation introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), which would put a stop to the NSA’s domestic phone-records collection.

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http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/senate-committee-approves-continued-bulk-spying-on-americans-131105?news=851573

[leftstreet]

1. There is no spying on Americans

Obama To Leno: 'There Is No Spying On Americans'

by Greg Henderson
August 07, 201312:44 AM


President Obama defended the US government's surveillance program, telling NBC's Jay Leno on Tuesday that: "There is no spying on Americans."

"We don't have a domestic spying program," Obama said on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. "What we do have is some mechanisms that can track a phone number or an email address that is connected to a terrorist attack. ... That information is useful."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/06/209692380/obama-to-leno-there-is-no-spying-on-americans

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[fredamae]

2. Chilling Photo of

DiFi there....and this outcome is of No surprise.

I also wish to Thank Sen Wyden for being one of the 4 who voted NO.

[TheKentuckian]

3. The same fucks keep going for another bite at the apple.

We will have to push them to the extreme and or weed them out with extreme prejudice.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. "with extreme prejudice."

That phrase is most commonly defined as "to kill"..is that you meant it?

[TheKentuckian]

5. No, I am not advocating assainations but rather removing these folks from power

as a prime directive and without consideration of any other calculus.

They must go without further consideration.

The end.

[TheKentuckian]

6. Also, the phrase you are looking for is to kill with extreme prejudice. I said nothing of killing.

The "with extreme prejudice" I stick with and utilize intentionally. No exceptions, excuses, rationalizations, or weighing of evils.