Senators Want Secret Warrantless Wiretap Renewal

An anonymous reader writes "A group of Senators are meeting in secret today, while most people are focused on the 'debt ceiling' issue, in order to try to rush through a renewal of the FISA Amendments Act, which expressly allowed warrantless wiretapping in the U.S. The law isn't set to expire until next year, but some feel that the debt ceiling crisis is a good distraction to pass the extension without having to debate the issue in public. The meeting is being held in secret, but it's not classified, so people can demand to know how their Senator voted."

Comments

Re:Which Senators was in the secret meeting?

[somersault]

Not all of them support the warrantless wiretaps

[secret citation needed]

Re:That explains everything.

[plover]

No one is getting groped over the phone, so most people don't give a damn.

You mean most Americans are too stupid to realize they're getting groped over the internet.