A top congressman admits the CIA, NSA, and FBI cannot be trusted with the intelligence they collect on Americans.
"Yet Nunes voted to enhance federal bulk surveillance powers.Trump changed his mind because spies rule over all. This vote happened while the press promoted Trump’s supposed “sh**hole” comment claimed by Sen. Durbin.
Bulk surveillance – which is prohibited by the Constitution – is the acquisition of digital versions of telephone, email and text communications based not on suspicion or probable cause but rather on geography or customer status. As I have written before, one publicly available bulk surveillance warrant was for all Verizon customers in the United States; that’s 115 million people, many of whom have more than one phone and at least one computer. And it is surveillance of Americans, not foreigners as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act contemplates.
How did this happen?
It happened in the dark. The NSA has persuaded the FISC, which meets in secret and only hears the government’s arguments, to permit it to spy on any American it wishes on the theory that all Americans know someone who knows someone else who knows someone who could have spoken to a foreign person working for a foreign government that could wish us ill."
Warrantless spying reauthorization passes House. Senate passes.
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