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“Senator Obama warned about Patriot Act abuses. President Obama proved him right.”
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[quote:Philligan:MV8yMzEwODg5XzM5MzcxNzYzX0FDNTM0NUQz] The amazing thing in this article is how it shows that in 2005, Obama was focused on the abuses that could result from the broad language in Section 215. Now, as President, Obama opposed the Amash amendment which would have fixed exactly those abuses arising from Section 215. [/quote]
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In recent months, Barack Obama has forcefully defended the use of the Patriot Act to gather the phone records of every American.
But before he was elected president, he had a very different perspective on the issue.
In December 2005, Congress was debating the first re-authorization of the Patriot Act, a controversial 2001 law that gave the federal government expanded power to spy on Americans.
And Barack Obama was one of nine senators who signed a letter criticizing the then-current version of the legislation for providing insufficient protections for civil liberties.
Sen. Obama and his colleagues also objected to the lack of transparency and due process in Section 215. “The target of a Section 215 order never receives notice that the government has obtained his sensitive personal information and never has an opportunity to challenge the use of this information in a trial or other proceeding,” they wrote.
Again, this prediction proved prescient.
In 2012, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked the NSA for a “ballpark estimate” of the number of Americans who had been subject to NSA surveillance. The NSA refused, claiming that revealing the number would violate the targets’ privacy. We now know that the figure was in the hundreds of millions. And prior to NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s disclosures, none of them received notice of the surveillance or an opportunity to challenge it in court.
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