Posted on 01/11/2018 9:03:20 AM PST by GIdget2004
A yearslong effort by a bipartisan group of lawmakers to impose significant new privacy limits on the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program fell short on Thursday, as the House of Representatives voted to extend the legal basis for that program by six years with only minimal changes.
The vote, 256 to 164, centered on an expiring law, Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, which permits the government collect without a warrant from American firms, like Google and AT&T, the emails and other communications of foreigners abroad — even when they are talking to Americans.
Before approving the extension of the law, the House voted 233 to 183 to reject an amendment that proposed a series of overhauls. Among them was a requirement that officials get warrants in most cases before hunting for and reading emails and other messages of Americans swept up under the program.
The legislation still has to go through the Senate, where fewer lawmakers appear to favor major changes to spying laws, and so the House vote is likely the effective end of a debate over 21st-ccentury surveillance technology and privacy rights that broke out in 2013 following the leaks by the intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden.
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Apparently, none will ever do anything to end the Big Government, unconstitutional surveillance of our web searches, text messages, social media, financial transactions, etc.
Fourth Amendment, we hardly knew ye...
Another sell out. WHO exactly in the District of Corruption, other than Rand Paul on this surviellance thing, is looking out for WE THE PEOPLE?
Tyranny, full steam ahead!
“WHO exactly in the District of Corruption, other than Rand Paul on this surviellance thing, is looking out for WE THE PEOPLE?”
Sen Paul says he may fillibuster. But he’ll probably be all alone.
For giving us the PATRIOT Act and everything that came from it...
F--- you, you dry drunk idiot.
It had quite a bit of support on here. I got told “If you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to worry about”.
Unconstitutional, *LIED* to their FACES, the whole reason for ‘12mo of Meuller’ and the (R)N(C) does its typical: jack SHIT.
Man, ‘18 going to be REAL interesting.
Dear George W. Bush, For giving us the PATRIOT Act and everything that came from it... F--- you, you dry drunk idiot.
Well said. And, as always, when it really matters, the Tyranny comes from whatever face of the Uniparty necessary.
The GOP is every bit as capable—and ready and willing—to sell us down the river as the Democrats are. Just absolutely spitting on our Unalienable Rights. Never forget that we live under Uniparty Swamp...
Then his supporters were backing a traitor of everything the Bill of Rights stands for.
It’s up to Rand Paul and a couple other Patriots in the Senate
to stop this illegal, warrant less spying.
Hopefully Paul can convene PT to change the domestic side of this. PT seems to be leaning that way.
This is not good. Dayum.
No one. The police state always advances. It never retreats. Liberties once lost are seldom, if ever regained.
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I’m elected electric spy
I’m protected electric eye
let’s hope hope Rand prevails on this in the senate.
(You'll see some other familiar names in the tweets I linked to above.)
Yeah, but we had a Republican president! and we’d just been attacked! If you weren’t with GWB you were with the terrorists.
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