Showing posts with label Patriot Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patriot Act. Show all posts
Patriot Act Faces Revisions Backed by Both Parties
by Jonathan Weisman and Jennifer Steinhauser. Maybe NSA will just ignore the law again. After more than a decade of wrenching national debate over the intrusiveness of government intelligence agencies, a bipartisan wave of support has gathered to sharply limit the federal government’s sweeps of phone and Internet records. ... MOREThe Time To Limit NSA Snooping Is Now
by Jacob Sullum. Reauthorizing unamended PATRIOT Act would be reckless. When Congress passed the PATRIOT Act in 2001, it did not intend to
authorize the indiscriminate collection of personal information about
every American. But that is what Congress will be doing if it renews the
law next month without changes aimed at protecting our privacy ... MOREHouse Effort Would Restore Privacy & Kill The Patriot Act
Pushing back against terrorism's victories. A pair of House lawmakers wants to completely repeal the Patriot Act
and other legal provisions to dramatically rein in American spying. Reps. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Tuesday unveiled their Surveillance State Repeal Act, which would overhaul American spying powers ... MORE
Alex Marthews: Mass Government Surveillance Is No Joke
A government of limitless power. Mass surveillance is becoming a punchline. John Kerry jokes with the press that it’s “so nice to put faces to the metadata.” Former National Security Agency chief Keith Alexander appears on John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight
and cheerfully describes the NSA as “the only agency in government that
really listens.” ... MOREThe Patriot Act Is Cannibalizing America’s Economic Edge
by Amit Patel. You would think that when tech companies, the ACLU and the
NRA unite for the same cause, the federal government would listen. That
was not the case in this year’s USA FREEDOM ACT vote where the Senate voted against reforms that would stop the NSA from collecting phone metadata. The majority opinion prioritized protectionism ... MOREHow Bush & Obama Turned America Into Police State
Government takes full advantage of 9-11. Rodney Martin, a former congressional staffer, says that former president George W. Bush and President Barack Obama have transformed the US into a police state following the 9/11 attacks. Martin made the remarks when asked about a report that showed a number of decisions made by American ... MOREMatt Welch: Kiss Your Financial Privacy Goodbye
Politicians destroy right to confidential banking. It started, as so many bad things do, with Richard Nixon. In 1970, in the midst of a national panic over crime and illegal drugs, the man whose presidency would later become synonymous with official criminality signed the Bank Secrecy Act, which compelled all U.S. financial institutions ... MORE
'Libertarian Paranoia' Is the Newest Fad in Politics
by Gene Healy. Look out: The libertarians
are coming! The libertarians are coming! Never before have so many
been so intimidated by so few, with so little political power. Salon.com offers near-daily warnings about the libertarian
“threat”: It's corrupting progressivism: “Don't
ally with libertarians: Ideologues co-opt an anti-NSA ... MORE
Patriot Act Author Introduces Bill To Halt NSA Snooping
by Stephen Dinan. The Republican author of the Patriot Act in the House and the senior Democrat in the Senate teamed together Tuesday to write a bill that would stop the National Security Agency’s
bulk collection of phone records and require a court order if the
government wants to search through Americans’ communications. ... MORESenator Calls To Scrap Key Patriot Act Snooping Provision
by Stephen Dinan. The Senate’s
senior lawmaker said Tuesday that its time to end the Patriot Act power
that the intelligence community has relied on to collect all Americans’
phone records, saying it isn’t making the country safer. “In my view, and I’ve discussed this with the White House, the Section 215 collection of Americans’ phone records ... MOREObama's Assurances About NSA Surveillance Ring Hollow
by Jacob Sullum. Last Friday, in an interview with CNN, President Obama
acknowledged that "the capabilities of the NSA are scary to
people." The challenge for him, he
explained at a press conference earlier this month, is "how do
I make the American people more comfortable" with the National
Security Agency's routine collection of ... MORE"Most Serious Attacks On Free Speech We've Ever Seen"
Josh Levy on the NSA' state surveillance programs. August 24, 2013 "Information Clearing House - The NSA's state surveillance programs are anti-democratic and unconstitutional. They could be the most serious attacks on free speech we’ve ever seen. On Sunday, U.K. intelligence officers held Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald’s ... MORELA TIMES OP-ED: How Obama Has Abused The Patriot Act
by Jim Sensenbrenner. On Aug. 9, the Obama administration released a previously secret legal interpretation of the Patriot Act that it used to justify the bulk collection of every American's phone records. The strained reasoning in the 22-page memo won't survive long in public light, which is itself one of the strongest arguments for transparency ... MOREGene Healy: For Obama, Words Conceal The Indefensible
Using language as a cover for the abuse of power. Let President Obama be clear, will you? He seems to think it's important. "The 'let me be clear' preface" is a recurring rhetorical tic
for Obama, the Washington
Post pointed out in 2010, and it's "become a signal that what
follows will be anything but." On Aug. 9, with his approval ... MORE
Steve Chapman: Resisting The Surveillance State
Is it the will of the people to compromise privacy? George W. Bush and Dick Cheney spent eight years choking personal privacy to within an inch of its life. After they were done, Barack Obama showed up, expressed heartfelt sympathy and stood on its throat. But despite their efforts, it isn't quite dead. Last week, it showed definite signs ... MOREAnthony Gregory: The War On Terror Is A War On Freedom
Terrorism isn't the primary threat to our freedom. In the aftermath of 9/11, President George W. Bush guided the Patriot Act through Congress, unilaterally expanded surveillance of Americans, amplified executive detention authority and took other dramatic measures that shifted the balance between liberty and ... MORE
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