Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said he voted against the reauthorization "because it failed to include the most important requirement to protect Americans' civil rights: that law enforcement get a warrant before targeting a US citizen."
Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point
Goddamn. What in the fuck is this timeline even. Now we need a THIRD secured device to secure comms between a remote server to stop MITM shit for fucks sake. Time to go deeper I guess.
It's very funny that the workable compromise between "this is important for national security" and "this infringes on basic liberty" is "maybe we just do it for 2 years and see how we feel after that."
Everyone hates Rand Paul but he voted no on this, as did others on the left and the right. Fuck fascism and fuck left authoritarianism.
Can't wait for people to tell me how this is actually a great thing and we need to cheer for this...
You think the government would ever get rid of powers like these? Of course not!
Spying on the American people is a bipartisan issue.
If you want to change that, you'll need more than votes.
There's an exception to the rule that prohibits spying on religious groups.
Who wants to start an anti-surveillance religion?
So it seems that there are indeed issues where "both sides" agree.
How is this even constitutional. Does the 4th amendment even exist?
Dang it, one of my senators voted for this nonsense.
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Non-sensationalized summary from the article:
Although Section 702 authorizes electronic surveillance of non-US people overseas, the official summary of the reauthorization bill notes that "information about US persons may incidentally be acquired by this type of surveillance and subsequently searched or 'queried' under certain circumstances.”
The reauthorization bill imposes some new limits on data collection. For example, FBI personnel must obtain prior approval from an FBI supervisor or attorney before making queries about US people. But this provision has an exception allowing such queries without prior approval if "the query could assist in mitigating or eliminating a threat to life or serious bodily harm."
There are also some new limits on queries involving elected US officials, political candidates, political organizations, media organizations, journalists, and religious groups. There is a prohibition on "the involvement of political appointees in the approval process for such politically sensitive query requests," and a requirement that the FBI director "establish consequences for noncompliant querying of US person terms, including zero tolerance for willful misconduct.”
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Well at least my rep was trying to fight against that shit.
APAB. Fucking bullshit!
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