Amazon misleads about
sending echo data to the government.
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.
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."
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.
Warrantless spying reauthorization passes House. Senate passes.
