Lawmakers Have Snuck CISA Into a Bill That Is Guaranteed to Become a Law

[LiberalArkie]

By JASON COBBLER

To anyone who has protested the sweeping, vague, and privacy-killing iterations of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Protection Act or the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act over the last several years, sorry, lawmakers have heard you, and they have ignored you.

That sounds bleak, but lawmakers have stripped the very bad CISA bill of almost all of its privacy protections and have inserted the full text of it into a bill that is essentially guaranteed to be passed and will certainly not be vetoed by President Obama.

CISA allows private companies to pass your personal information and online goings-on to the federal government and local law enforcement if it suspects a "cybersecurity threat," a term so broadly defined that it can apply to "anomalous patterns of communication" and can be used to gather information about just about any crime, cyber or not.

The Senate passed a version of CISA earlier this fall, but now a more invasive version of it (renamed the Cybersecurity Act of 2015) has been inserted into an extremely important budget bill.

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http://motherboard.vice.com/read/lawmakers-have-snuck-cisa-into-a-bill-that-is-guaranteed-to-become-a-law

[joshcryer]

1. Yay, Greenwald!

[LiberalArkie]

2. Sorry Incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and_Protection_Act

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA H.R. 3523 (112th Congress), H.R. 624 (113th Congress), H.R. 234 (114th Congress)) is a proposed law in the United States which would allow for the sharing of Internet traffic information between the U.S. government and technology and manufacturing companies. The stated aim of the bill is to help the U.S. government investigate cyber threats and ensure the security of networks against cyberattacks.[1]

Introduced in the House as H.R. 3523 by Mike Rogers (R-MI) on November 30, 2011


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

Sorry Snowden did not come into play until 2013

[joshcryer]

6. Greenwald did a great job exposing us cyberspying on its own citizens.

His efforts are to be applauded, and lauded. His book deals, and movies winning all those awards, they even got, what was it, the Pulitzer prize for all the hard hitting reporting! The people really did win on this one!

[leveymg]

3. How is Greenwald at all relevant?

[joshcryer]

7. Well, he was only at the forefront of this issue.

Who would've thought a media campaign to make loads of money writing a book would bring about amazing reforms in the spying on US citizens? Incredible work by everyone involved. Pulitzer prize well earned.

[leveymg]

10. I'm sorry, it seemed you were being snide and scapegoating there.

My bad, in that case.

[msongs]

4. surely the president would veto this if it's odious lol nt

[joshcryer]

9. Given that Obama has never had his own budget passed...

...he'll sign it. Would it be that he vetoed and forced a government shut down in an election year.

[LiberalArkie]

5. Here are the votes on the senate bill back in October 2015

YEAs ---74
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Boxer (D-CA)
Burr (R-NC)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Capito (R-WV)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Coats (R-IN)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cotton (R-AR)
Donnelly (D-IN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Enzi (R-WY)
Ernst (R-IA)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Flake (R-AZ)
Gardner (R-CO)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Heitkamp (D-ND)
Hirono (D-HI)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kaine (D-VA)
King (I-ME)
Kirk (R-IL)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Lankford (R-OK)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)
McConnell (R-KY)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Perdue (R-GA)
Peters (D-MI)
Portman (R-OH)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rounds (R-SD)
Sasse (R-NE)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Shelby (R-AL)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Toomey (R-PA)
Warner (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wicker (R-MS)

NAYs ---21
Baldwin (D-WI)
Booker (D-NJ)
Brown (D-OH)
Cardin (D-MD)
Coons (D-DE)
Crapo (R-ID)
Daines (R-MT)
Franken (D-MN)
Heller (R-NV)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lee (R-UT)
Markey (D-MA)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Risch (R-ID)
Sanders (I-VT)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-NM)
Warren (D-MA)
Wyden (D-OR)

Not Voting - 5
Cruz (R-TX)
Graham (R-SC)
Paul (R-KY)
Rubio (R-FL)
Vitter (R-LA)

[joshcryer]

8. Got to love election year no votes.

5 out of 5 of those no votes are or were running for office.

[l.o.o.s.e.e-2]

13. Thank you for this vote rundown!

I was trying to figure out the absence of Paul's vote; wish to add I searched/learned he offered an amendment (co-spondored with Wyden) regarding limiting the blanket immunity of companies. Roll call vote shot it down 32-65

[LiberalArkie]

15. I wonder if the R's in the Nay list can be considered almost good guys?

[Dont call me Shirley]

18. Thanks for posting, LiberalArkie.

[FlatBaroque]

11. Future Presidents will all be benevolent

and none will ever dare to use the broad powers granted in this legislation.

[joshcryer]

12. LOL

[MisterP]

16. "unless you complain about CISA, and then we'll get a Republican and it'll be all! your! fault!"

[Octafish]

14. Well. The name makes it sound like a good thing. Which is the important thing.

Reality is so overrated these days.

[WillyT]

17. K & R !!!

[blackspade]

19. Of course they did.

Because the NSA doesn't want to miss out on its stock of naked pictures and soap opera goings on of people that they know.

Another law in search of a problem.