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National Security Letters Reform Act Reintroduced
eldavojohn writes "A bill introduced today, similar to one that died in 2007, would reform the plague of National Security Letters and greatly narrow their scope. On top of that, it would mandate the destruction of any wrongly obtained information discovered in audits by the Inspector General that uncovered widespread improprieties in NSLs."
First, NSLs have been around since at least IKE, and I think even before that. The difference is that all prior admins showed restraint and only used them MOSTLY for real issues (a few, were known to be total BS).
As to those that supported the GD neo-cons and this behavior, I say let them swing along side of the top neo-cons. Every last one of these kind of ppls should be swinging for the traitors to the Constitution that they are.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
it has got to be pretty clear by now that no one in Washington has the balls to even utter the word "treason" -- which is effectively what the blatant ignorance of the Supreme Law of the Land amounts to
A provision that amounts to "if you abuse the statute, stop, don't pass go, report directly to the US Attorney for your district and make plans for spending at least a year in federal prison with 'cop' written with a sharpie on your forehead every morning." Based on the way the IG has found that the FBI routinely violates it, and there is so little accountability, the law needs to allow the IG to go damn near Napoleonic (law) on the FBI agents involved.
Perhaps I'll stop with my anti-Republicanism when they stop actively fighting my self interest.
If they want me to stop hating them perhaps they should stop fighting hate crimes legislation and preventing me from having all of my rights. Perhaps they should acknowledge that as a citizen, one that pays taxes no less, that I should have an equal amount of freedom.
But then again, we could just pretend like the party doesn't have some incredibly anti-American policies. Perhaps we could then force it into a dogma because clearly people's own self interest must be dogma.
I think it's vaguely ironic that you can't comprehend that people might hate the Republican party on it's merits without being strict partisans.