Senate Republcions Out to Keep Big Nanny State Government

[Jw2]

Senate Republicans to Re-Authorize Patriot Act
 

Weeks before a key surveillance law expires, Senate Republicans have introduced a bill that would allow the National Security Agency to continue collecting the calling records of nearly every American.
 
The measure by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and intelligence committee Chairman Richard Burr would bypass Senate committees and reauthorize sections of the Patriot Act, including the provision under which the NSA is requiring phone companies to turn over the "to and from" records of most domestic landline calls.
 
After the program was disclosed in 2013 by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, President Barack Obama and many lawmakers called for legislation to end that collection, but a bill to do so failed last year.
 
Proponents had hoped that the expiration of the Patriot Act provisions on June 1 would force consideration of such a measure.
 
 
so, given the power to eliminate government intrusion into your lives, Republicons have chosen to keep surveilling you.
 
that's a fact.
 
and, even though it's Mitch McConnel and Republicon Senate leadership re-authorizing this, it is still Obama's fault.
 
 

[Thomasj_tx]

Minutes before a midnight deadline, President Barack Obama signed into law a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists.

"It's an important tool for us to continue dealing with an ongoing terrorist threat," Obama said.


 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/27/patriot-act-extension-signed-obama-autopen_n_867851.html


lil'johnnie, who controlled the Senate in 2011?

[Jw2]

that was then...this is now.
 
learn to pay attention tommy.
 
now is the time for Republicons to stand up for their stated values.
 
but, they won't.

[D2D]

Bet nearly every democrat votes for it, too!

[Local5th]

The simple solution would of been not to fund them.

[sweetwater5s9]

Votes taken in rapid succession in the Senate and House came after lawmakers rejected attempts to temper the law enforcement powers to ensure that individual liberties are not abused.

Congress bumped up against the deadline mainly because of the stubborn resistance from a single senator, Republican freshman Rand Paul of Kentucky, who saw the terrorist-hunting powers as an abuse of privacy rights. Paul held up the final vote for several days while he demanded a chance to change the bill to diminish the government's ability to monitor individual actions.

Intelligence officials have denied improper use of surveillance tools, and this week both FBI Director Robert Mueller and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper sent letters to congressional leaders warning of serious national security consequences if the provisions were allowed to lapse.

The Obama administration says that without the three authorities the FBI might not be able to obtain information on terrorist plotting inside the U.S. and that a terrorist who communicates using different cell phones and email accounts could escape timely surveillance.

"When the clock strikes midnight tomorrow, we would be giving terrorists the opportunity to plot attacks against our country, undetected," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on the Senate floor Wednesday. In unusually personal criticism of a fellow senator, he warned that Paul, by blocking swift passage of the bill, "is threatening to take away the best tools we have for stopping them."

Paul agreed to let the bill go forward after he was given a vote on two amendments to rein in government surveillance powers. Both were soundly defeated. The more controversial, an amendment that would have restricted powers to obtain gun records in terrorist investigations, was defeated 85-10.

Two Democratic critics of the Patriot Act, Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Udall of Colorado, on Thursday extracted a promise from Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., that she would hold hearings with intelligence and law enforcement officials on how the law is being carried out.

Associated Press writers Laurie Kellman and Pete Yost contributed to this report.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/27/patriot-act-extension-signed-obama-autopen_n_867851.html

[darkflower]

we would be giving terrorists the opportunity to plot attacks against our country, undetected

So what? Lots of criminals plot attacks every day undetected. Big freaking deal. The ends do not justify the means and the means are clearly wrong and a violation of our freedoms. The people who hate our freedoms are clearly our own government.

The worst part of the 911 attacks is not the death and destruction on that day but the government's reaction to it and use of it to justify things it should not be doing or allowed to get away with.

And dems and reps are both the problem.  But yes, reps are total hypocrites on the whole big government nanny state thing.

[sweetwater5s9]

"When the clock strikes midnight tomorrow, we would be giving terrorists the opportunity to plot attacks against our country, undetected," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on the Senate floor Wednesday. In unusually personal criticism of a fellow senator, he warned that Paul, by blocking swift passage of the bill, "is threatening to take away the best tools we have for stopping them."


Yes, a liberal was blasting a libertarian over not having intelligence gathering.  Liberals said that without the three authorities the FBI might not be able to obtain information on terrorist plotting inside the U.S. and that a terrorist who communicates using different cell phones and email accounts could escape timely surveillance.

[D2D]

Jw2 has a strange definition of "Big Nanny State Government"!

Since when is national defense a part of the Nanny State?

[chuck_curtis]

Same ole, same ole.

[WWV10MHZ]

Jizz-Wanker2......  What's a "Republcion"? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?    IDIOT!!!!

[darkflower]

Since when is national defense a part of the Nanny State?

Since 911.