The NSA vote is a populous issue with Libertarians. Lately, the Senator from Texas. What's his name? ??? Oh, yeah, Cruz has been grandstanding with Senator Paul. LIBERTY, Harry.
So, when the House is ACCUSED, then they react. But, they won't react in a direction of productive governing, they will react to defend their populous agenda.
Sure it is scarey, but, it is real.
Hell, they'll go to war and destroy the entire democracy if they can talk the country into it. BUSH and CHENEY. Populists!!!!!!!!
So, when the House is ACCUSED, then they react. But, they won't react in a direction of productive governing, they will react to defend their populous agenda.
Sure it is scarey, but, it is real.
Hell, they'll go to war and destroy the entire democracy if they can talk the country into it. BUSH and CHENEY. Populists!!!!!!!!
July 23, 2013
By Spencer Akerman
Congressional opposition to the NSA's bulk surveillance(click here) on Americans swelled on Tuesday as the US House prepared to vote on restricting the collection of US phone records and a leading Senate critic blasted a "culture of misinformation" around government surveillance.
Republican congressman Justin Amash prevailed in securing a vote for his amendment to a crucial funding bill for the Department of Defense that "ends authority for the blanket collection of records under the Patriot Act." The vote could take place as early as Wednesday evening.
"The people have spoken through their representatives," Amash told the Guardian on Tuesday. "This is an opportunity to vote on something that will substantially limit the ability of the NSA to collect their phone records without suspicion."
It will be the first such vote held by Congress on restricting NSA surveillance after the revelations from ex-contractor Edward Snowden, published in the Guardian and the Washington Post, that detailed a fuller picture of the surveillance authorities than officials had publicly disclosed – something blasted in a fiery Tuesday speech by Senator Ron Wyden, a prominent Democratic critic of the surveillance programs....