Sen. Bernie Sanders called for changes in a law that the National Security Agency used to obtain hundreds of millions of U.S. phone records and tap into Internet companies to gather searches, emails, audio, video and photographs. The massive surveillance programs divulged by The Guardian and The Washington Post relied on the so-called USA Patriot Act to justify what had been secret court orders authorizing wholesale surveillance of telephone and Internet records. “Intelligence agencies and law enforcement authorities need strong and effective tools to combat terrorism,” Bernie said. “But it is my very strong opinion that we can do that without living in an Orwellian world where the government and private corporations know every telephone call that we make, every website we visit, everyplace we go. Is that really the country we want to be?”
Posted on: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:54:19 +0000
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