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Domestic Surveillance Oversight Act
miladus writes "PCWorld is
running a story about the latest effort by the Senate to oversee the
FBI's use of anti-terrorist laws and 'excessive secrecy'. Senator P. Leahy (D-Vermont) along with
C. Grassley (R-Iowa) and A. Specter (R-PA) are
proposing the Domestic
Surveillance Oversight Act (pdf file) which will require the FBI and
the Department of Justice to tell 'how often they spy on American
citizens under powers granted by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Act
(FISA) and expanded in the Patriot Act of 2001'. The senators released a report
charging the FBI and the DOJ of 'excessive secrecy' and of 'inadequate
training with respect to the FISA provision' concerning the balance
between privacy and security.
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You know, its finally nice to see someone challenging the things trying to be passed through the senate. Things like the Patriot Act, and Patriot Act II. I -LIKE- seeing people saying "Wait, WHY is our government doing this?" Its something that is happening less and less frequently. I don't know about you, but I'm not a terrorist, and I'd STILL like to have my civil liberties in tact after this is all said and done. Things like being able to speak freely in public without fear of being secretly arrested. Things like being able to go to the library to do a report on nucleur missiles without getting reported to the FBI. Things like being able to leave my home and not have to worry about the FBI breaking into my house without a warrant. And most of all things like being able to practice the freedoms that were the reason we broke off into our own country to begin with. nems a.k.a. The Anti Terrorist Freedom Preserving Tree Hugging Hippy Bastard