Senate Panel Votes to Extend Gov’t Surveillance Powers
Source: Common Dreams
A Senate panel has voted to extend a controversial provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that is set to expire at the end of the year. The Obama administration has sought to renew its expanded authority to monitor phone calls and emails inside the United States if one person involved is abroad and the targets foreigners believed to be outside the country. The vote by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence comes shortly after news the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether a group of activists, journalists and lawyers represented by the American Civil Liberties Union have the legal right to challenge the U.S. governments surveillance practices, which they say could pick up their communications with clients and sources overseas.
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villager
(26,001 posts)And thus this administration fails us, once again.
msongs
(67,440 posts)Fearless
(18,421 posts)Right to privacy my ass.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)Democrats
Dianne Feinstein
California
Chairman
John D. Rockefeller IV
West Virginia
Ron Wyden
Oregon
Barbara A. Mikulski
Maryland
Bill Nelson
Florida
Kent Conrad
North Dakota
Mark Udall
Colorado
Mark Warner
Virginia
Republicans
Saxby Chambliss
Georgia
Vice Chairman
Olympia J. Snowe
Maine
Richard Burr
North Carolina
James Risch
Idaho
Daniel Coats
Indiana
Roy Blunt
Missouri
Marco Rubio
Florida
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)and the president is a democrat. I am sure someone will come along and say the republicans made them do it, though.