House Approves Extending the Warrantless Wiretapping Act

wiedzmin writes "The U.S. House of Representatives voted 301-118 today, in favor of extending the FISA Amendments Act until December 31st, 2017, effectively reauthorizing the broad electronic eavesdropping powers that largely legalized the George W. Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program."

Comments

It Has Kept Us Safe

[Anonymous Coward]

Personally, I'm glad for this extension. There are still evildoers, particularly Islamic terrorists that are bent on harming America. Just wittness the latest attack in Libya.

These powers are what has allowed the authorities to infiltrate and disrupt these dastardly plots. If these jihadists might think the feds are watching, that is also an effective deterrant.

I'm all for giving the government all the powers they need to keep me and my family safe. My freedom is worth nothing if I am dead.

Re:How's your

[X0563511]

How do you think these dicks fund themselves? They hook up the Founding Fathers to some dynamos and sell the electricity.

And Obama will sign it...but only reluctantly

[crazyjj]

He's going to sign it...but he didn't mean to.

He's going to fight for our civil rights next year. He promises. Honest.