Slashdot Mirror
Senate Renews Warrantless Eavesdropping Act
New submitter electron sponge writes "On Friday morning, the Senate renewed the FISA Amendments Act (PDF), which allows for warrantless electronic eavesdropping, for an additional five years. The act, which was originally passed by Congress in 2008, allows law enforcement agencies to access private communications as long as one participant in the communications could reasonably be believed to be outside the United States. This law has been the subject of a federal lawsuit, and was argued before the Supreme Court recently. 'The legislation does not require the government to identify the target or facility to be monitored. It can begin surveillance a week before making the request, and the surveillance can continue during the appeals process if, in a rare case, the secret FISA court rejects the surveillance application. The court’s rulings are not public.'"
The EFF points out that the Senate was finally forced to debate the bill, but the proposed amendments that would have improved it were rejected.
You are one dumb fuck you know that? Congress was democrat controlled for 6 years until 2010. The Senate has been Dem controlled for almost as long. Obama has been in Office for 4 years. Republicans don't have control over anything. YOUR SIDE OWNS THIS MOTHER FUCKER. How about some fucking leadership from the empty chair? Where is he? Oh yeah he's on his 23rd vacation in 4 years.The sack of shit played more gold in 3 years than Bush did in 8.
I don't give a shit if the have a D or an R behind their names. If they are this incompetent they deserve to be tarred and feathered on the white house lawn.
Fuck you blaming everyone but the mother fuckers in control right now. I hate people like you.
Indeed, you're incapable of it. You're such a worthless liberal hack that you're incapable of seeing anything but the DailyKOS talking point. Go fuck yourself.