Republican Congressman Rogers who wrote this Bill receives a large share of his campaigne donations from the Private contractors for the NSA and Military Industrial Complex -- Is it any wonder he is using this opportunity to weaken our Constitutional protections against NSA illegal snooping ? A draft of the bill acquired by the Guardian proposes the acquisition of such phone or email data for up to a year and would not necessarily require prior approval by a judge. Rather: -- We should advocate for our Congressinal Reps to approve another bill by Republican Sensenbrenner that does protect our Constitutional rights to privacy from Government intrusions from the NSA. The House intelligence committee proposal represents competition to a different bill introduced last fall by privacy advocates in the Senate and House judiciary committees known as the USA Freedom Act. That bill, which has 163 co-sponsors in both chambers, does not lower the legal standard for data collection on US persons, and would prohibit the NSA from searching for Americans identifying information in its foreign-oriented communications content databases, something the House intelligence bill would not. It limits, but does not end, bulk collection. Provisions included in the draft fall well short of the safeguards in the USA Freedom Act and do not strike the proper balance between privacy and security, Sensenbrenner said in a statement late on Monday.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:42:02 +0000
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