SA Friday
12-30-2012, 00:22
http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_22275128/senate-renews-warrantless-spy-power-despite-objections
The Senate on Friday renewed government power to eavesdrop without a warrant on overseas e-mails and phone calls of suspected foreign terrorists and spies.This means secret surveillance can continue for another five years if President Barack Obama, as expected, signs the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.Sen. Mark Udall and other Democrats and Republicans fought unsuccessfully to make changes that would have forced the government to estimate how many Americans have had their communications collected without court approval. They lost 52 to 43, and senators then gave final approval in a 73-23 vote."I have serious concerns about the U.S. Senate's decision," Udall said in a statement. "We cannot undermine the very Constitution we have sworn to support and defend."The warrantless spying started after the 9/11 attacks. In 2008, senators set a legal framework that let federal agencies intercept e-mails and monitor phone calls of suspected enemies abroad without judicial approval as long as investigators reasonably believe at least one party in an exchange is outside the United States.National intelligence chiefs say the law allows targeting of only non-U.S. people. However, critics have been pressing for details on how the surveillance works and asking whether agencies that sweep up communications of Americans when targeting foreign parties later can scrutinize all the communications they have collected and stored.
Really? You have been helping write bills that will do exactly that with crazy bitch Feinstein. How in the hell can ANYONE believe a damn word out of his mouth when he does one thing and says another? [Bang]
The Senate on Friday renewed government power to eavesdrop without a warrant on overseas e-mails and phone calls of suspected foreign terrorists and spies.This means secret surveillance can continue for another five years if President Barack Obama, as expected, signs the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.Sen. Mark Udall and other Democrats and Republicans fought unsuccessfully to make changes that would have forced the government to estimate how many Americans have had their communications collected without court approval. They lost 52 to 43, and senators then gave final approval in a 73-23 vote."I have serious concerns about the U.S. Senate's decision," Udall said in a statement. "We cannot undermine the very Constitution we have sworn to support and defend."The warrantless spying started after the 9/11 attacks. In 2008, senators set a legal framework that let federal agencies intercept e-mails and monitor phone calls of suspected enemies abroad without judicial approval as long as investigators reasonably believe at least one party in an exchange is outside the United States.National intelligence chiefs say the law allows targeting of only non-U.S. people. However, critics have been pressing for details on how the surveillance works and asking whether agencies that sweep up communications of Americans when targeting foreign parties later can scrutinize all the communications they have collected and stored.
Really? You have been helping write bills that will do exactly that with crazy bitch Feinstein. How in the hell can ANYONE believe a damn word out of his mouth when he does one thing and says another? [Bang]