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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsU.S. Senators Call for an End to the N.S.A. Dragnet, Now
Americans trust has been undermined by the N.S.A.s domestic surveillance programs, as well as by senior officials misleading statements about surveillance. Only by ending the dragnet collection of ordinary Americans private information can this trust be rebuilt."
By Senator Ron Wyden, Senator Mark Udall and Senator Martin Heinrich
THE framers of the Constitution declared that government officials had no power to seize the records of individual Americans without evidence of wrongdoing, and they embedded this principle in the Fourth Amendment.
The bulk collection of Americans telephone records so-called metadata by the National Security Agency is, in our view, a clear case of a general warrant that violates the spirit of the framers intentions."
*Congress has a crucial opportunity to reassert constitutionally guaranteed liberties by reforming the N.S.A.s overbroad collection of Americans personal data. But the Intelligence Committee bill squanders this chance. It would enable some of the most constitutionally questionable surveillance activities now exposed to the public eye. The Senate should be reining in these programs, not giving them a stamp of approval.
As members of the Intelligence Committee, we strongly disagree with this approach. "
http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2013/12/01/u-s-senators-call-for-an-end-to-the-n-s-a-dragnet-now/
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)no follow-thru. Of course.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)When this push toward 1984 started one group really earned my admiration, libraries. When the feds wanted them to turn over what people were reading the libraries pretty much told them to go to Hell.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)Two of America's finest patriots.