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Related: About this forumDemocratic Divide Over NSA Could Pose Problem For Obama
By Aaron Blake and Scott Wilson, Thursday, August 1, 8:08 PM
Lost in all the rancor among Republicans over the National Security Agencys surveillance programs has been this: A similar ideological divide has been exposed in the Democratic Party that could pose even more political difficulties for President Obama.
Several Democrats from the partys civil liberties wing the mirror image of the Republicans rising libertarian strain met with Obama and Republican lawmakers Thursday at the White House to discuss concerns about the NSAs phone data collection program and elements of the administrations broader surveillance effort.
Among them were Democratic Sens. Mark Udall (Colo.) and Ron Wyden (Ore.), the lawmaker who earlier Thursday proposed legislation that would, in addition to other measures, add a privacy and civil liberties advocate to the secret court proceedings when the government requests national security warrants.
Now government lawyers make the case for warrants before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which has turned down only 11 of the governments nearly 34,000 warrant requests over the past three decades.
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Wilms
(26,795 posts)truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Obama would bother to act like a Democrat!
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)burrowowl
(17,640 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)it wants Democrats to take the blame for the NSA thing - either way
Hydra
(14,459 posts)And is asking Congress to do the same. The only way our party DOESN'T own it at this point is if they oppose the WH's position.
So, are we going to disown it?