ATTENTION !!! # HOUSE VOTES TODAY to LEGALIZE WARRANTLESS WIRETAPS # Update

So in other words they are making it openly legal to do what they have been doing for a long-ass time....

The intelligence community has unchecked power...

George Carlin the illusion of freedom



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But do keep in mind, if they wouldn't consider every citizen to be a potential terrorist, their huge budgets are gonna face massive cuts, and we wouldn't want that to happen, now would we?

House Approves Rep. Lamar Smith's Bill To Keep Spying On Americans
by Mike Masnick
Sep. 13, 2012

As was expected, despite not knowing the details of how the feds interpret the FISA Amendmens Act, which grants massive spying and surveillance power to the feds - in fact, while proactively stopping any efforts to find out more about the interpretation, the House of Representatives today approved Lamar Smith's FISA Amendment's Act by a vote of 301-118. You can see which representatives voted which way at that link. The bill would extend the current rules (and the secret interpretation) for another five years. Republicans, who are supposedly against bigger government, only had 7 members vote no, while the remaining 111 no votes came from Democrats.

There had been an attempt to introduce amendments, but that was shot down procedurally. And an hour debate did little to get to the heart of the matter. Rep. Zoe Lofgren fought the good fight, pointing out that "I think the government needs to comply with the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution all the time... We can be safe while still complying with the Constitution of the United States." However, Rep. Dan Lungren - who previously had insisted that there was no evidence that the NSA was abusing its powers, while refusing to even ask the NSA for basic info on how it was using the powers - insisted based on absolutely nothing that "this is critical to the protection of the American people."

CONTINUE: [link to informationliberation.com]

Call me a "Stupid paranoid twat" as an AC did but still...