Tenn. senate bill would prohibit state from cooperating with NSA

[Jesus Malverde]

Tennessee State Sen. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville, introduced a bill today that would prohibit the state from supporting the "federal collection of electronic data or metadata without a warrant," Examiner has learned.
Campfield told Examiner that his goal is to "stop an out of control NSA from warrant less wire tapping with TN support."

SB 1849, better known as the Fourth Amendment Protection Act, would prohibit the state from having anything to do with the "collection of electronic data or metadata of any person" without a warrant. And Campfield isn't talking about those FISC (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) warrants that encompass everyone, but instead, a warrant that "particularly describes the person, place and thing to be searched or seized," according to the bill.

The bill states that any agent or employee of Tennessee who violates the law "shall be deemed to have resigned the public commission or employment which the person may possess, the person's office shall be deemed vacant, and the person shall be forever thereafter ineligible to any public office of trust or honor under the laws of this state."

The bill would not only apply to the government, but to certain businesses as well:

Any person or business that provides services to or on behalf of this state
found to violate the prohibitions of Section 4 of this act shall not have any current
contract renewed and shall not be eligible to enter into any future contract to act on
behalf of, or provide services to, this state or any political subdivision of this state.

http://www.examiner.com/article/tenn-senate-bill-would-prohibit-state-from-cooperating-with-nsa

[Swede Atlanta]

1. This is one time I would agree with TN......

I don't trust Obama's "revision" to NSA practices further than I can throw them....

First of all simply having a 3rd party hold onto the data if the only protection the American people have are the monkeys sitting on the FISA court, does nothing.

Second, I doubt the NSA plans to follow the law. I think they seriously believe they are more powerful than the rest of government and can and will do whatever they want. If Congress tries to defund them they expose the marital affairs, drug use, bribes, etc. of the Congresscritters. This will effectively stop any real attempt within Congress to defund anything.