The American People do have enemies: they just all sit in DC. Mitch McConnell: "The men and women we trust to protect this country
say this capability is essential to their missions." What men and women
in the FBI/CIA/NSA do we trust to use this information to "protect" the
country Mitch? And what missions are those? The espionage, conspiracy,
and subterfuge missions?
Senate Votes To Reauthorize NSA Spying Program
1/18/2018
Tyler Durden
While most Congressional observers are focused on the battle to avert a weekend government shutdown (an outcome that's looking increasingly likely), the Senate on Thursday quietly passed an extension of the NSA's spying surveillance program, sending the bill to the president's desk a week after the House voted to authorize the controversial plan.
Even President Trump voiced scepticism about reauthorizing the bill in a tweet earlier this year, where he claimed it had helped the Obama administration spy on the Trump campaign, although he infamously flip-flopped later.
As the Hill pointed out, the vote comes after an (almost) tension-filled hour on the Senate floor earlier this week where opponents tried, but failed, to mount a filibuster to force additional debate on the legislation, with both sides spotted lobbying key holdouts. Opponents rallied against the bill ahead of Thursday's vote, arguing the legislation is being rushed through.
Critics of the controversial Section 702 of the FISA Act - the measure that was reauthorized by the Senate today and is expected to be signed into law despite Trump's reservations - said it allows the FBI to spy on Americans without first obtaining a warrant. Though some surveillance experts have disputed this.
As the Wall Street Journal explained, Section 702 underpins a wide range of electronic collection against foreign targets overseas and has been referred to by officials as critical to national security. The law was set to expire Friday unless Congress voted to reauthorize it.
Opponents of the bill say the secrecy surrounding intelligence agency operations has made it prone to abuse. One of the most prominent critics of re-authorization is Thomas Drake, an NSA whistleblower who raised concerns about the domestic spying initiatives that were revealed by Edward Snowden - except he raised his concerns through official channels.
The vote passed in a 65 to 34 vote with bipartisan support, meaning quite a few members of the Democrats "resistance" ended up aligning with the hated Donald Trump.
Supporters only needed 51 votes on Thursday, giving them more breathing room, compared with the 60 votes needed on Tuesday's procedural hurdle.
Per the Wall Street Journal, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell exhorted his colleagues to back extending the program ahead of Thursday's vote, calling it "one of the most important tools" for national security officials. By passing the bill, Congress rejected efforts by a coalition of conservative Republicans, civil libertarians and liberal Democrats to enact new privacy protections for Americans who are inadvertently caught up in surveillance by American intelligence agencies.
Selected Comments:
# What about penalties for bogus use of evidence / misuse of said program?
# Are they fearing an organized revolt or something?
# So long as you're not interfering with their smuggling rackets, drug running, human trafficking, or a personal enemy, or related to a personal enemy, or involved in the liberty movement, or a truther, or related to anyone in those groups, or post libertarian ideology on social media, or read the wrong websites, or smoke marijuana, or collect firearms, or go to protests.....or talk shit on ZH.....you have nothing to worry about.
# It's how they silence dissent.
# I'm shocked that there were actually 34 votes against it! We must act immediately to remove these Russian sympathizers from office!!
# Bipartisan just means getting fucked twice.
# I expressly DISTRUST any of those fuckers to protect the country or be faithful to their oath of office. The constitution is clear, this is a violation, and everyone of those pieces of shit that voted for this abomination should be swinging from lamp posts.
# All the surveillance power in the world and still can't prevent one mass shooting on US soil.
# Why would you prevent something you planned?
# And therein lies the rub...
# Won't vote ever again for the scum that authorized this unconstitutional bill.
# That made them chuckle
# Many of us will not vote again for elected representatives who represent the interests of citizens of other countries, rather than American citizens, to the extreme of doubling the child-tax-credit welfare of even the welfare-supported illegal immigrants, vaulting it over $6,444, and helping them to undercut millions of underemployed Americans in the job-seeker pool. Congress hates-on the many underemployed American citizens, the citizens struggling to cover rent that takes more than half of their earned-only income. I guess they may as well make it symmetrical, taking away what little many Americans have, even fundamental constitutional liberties. They are just doing it to accommodate the globalism that lines the pockets of a few elites. We would not need so much surveillance to prevent terrorism, were it not for their unfettered mass-immigration policies, and the surveillance is not preventing it, anyway.
I, however, love the NSA and would never question their authority or motives. The NSA is keeping us all safe and prosperous. The NSA is as GrrrEAT as Kellog's Frosted Flakes. The NSA should have a much bigger budget. The NSA should have wider powers. The NSA should not have to answer to anyone. Long Live the NSA!
# I, however, hate the NSA and question the motives of every cocksucker that works for them. Actually, I don't question them. I know that the most benign of them care about nothing so much as their easy workday and generous pensions. The rest care only about exercising power they couldn't exercise in person. They don't care about keeping us safe as they have obviously failed to prevent any of the FBI false flags. They don't care about keeping us prosperous as they have stood by while our wealthy is blown up in shit holes around the world. They should have not budget and no powers. They will have to answer someday - to all of us. Let them desicate in public as the buzzards pluck their eyeballs, strip their carcasses and shit them out to perform the single beneficial act of their liv es - fertilizing the surrounding area. Fuck the NSA. Fuck the CIA. Fuck the FBI. Fuck the War Pigs in the Pentagon and State department.
# Ever notice that whennver there is bipartisan support for something in DC...the DEN OF CORRUPTION...its ALWAYS bad for the American People and the Constitution...but good for the deep state/NWO.
# Always pay close attention to what get's 'bi-partisan' support. Because it's always something that's NEVER in the real interest of anyone outside of the government and it's ALWAYS something that gives them more power.
# The Democratic & Republican parties are nothing but Kabuki Theater. Neocons control both parties and the "deep-state" owns the neocons. Our votes are meaningless as elected officials pursue the goals of the deep state and NOT the will of the American people!!!
# The Criminal, illegal domestic surveillance of US citizens without a warrant or probable cause is only one symptom of many of how corrupt our government is at all levels. Voters don't matter. The deep state is not elected. Money talks in Washington and the revolving door spins like a top. Criminality & Corruption is so rampant, it is neither illegal or “hidden in plain sight” anymore.
Criminal Congressmen can profit on insider information (no thanks to the Stock Act and Harry Reid who put a stop to it). Special interests not only put their puppets in power and select their candidates before the election but write their own laws verbatim and hand them over to their puppets WHO DON'T EVEN READ THE TEXT THEY ARE PASSING!
This is not conspiracy folks. This is the country you live in. The only reason Trump is pissed about it is because it AFFECTED HIM! If you think he cares about you, then you haven't been paying attention.
Everyone except those who are supportive of a police state, and neo-feudalism are in for a rough time. That is, of course, if this once great nation doesn't get turned into a pile of ash for starting WWIII - likely in 2018.
Realize this didn't happen overnight and it didn't happen without the people's consent. Folks didn't have a problem with special interests taking over our government despite repeat warnings from Eisenhower, Kennedy, Reagan and others. Folks believed what the MSM spoon fed them. People didn't bother to question or hold their leaders accountable. They allowed their rights to be systematically stripped away with new legislation that made the constitution effectively obsolete. This goes back to at least Wilson, the formation of the FED, the Counsel On Foreign Relations, Rockefeller, the Rothchild's, JP Morgan, .etc. What wwe are experiencing now is the maturity of a Criminal corrupt government who no longer exists for the people it claims to represent and instead sees them as an obstacle (as Rex Tillerson so eloquently put it).
All evil needs is for good people to remain silent. The American people have remained collectively silent (divided, and distracted) for generations. I do not see them uniting any time soon.
Insane times indeed...
# If history serves the NSA was already doing these things BEFORE they were given permission. Why would this bill passing/failing change anything?
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/senate-votes-to-reauthorize-nsa-spying-program
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