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McConnell Introduces Bill To Extend NSA Surveillance
jriding sends word that the majority leader of the U.S. Senate has introduced a bill that would extend the surveillance provisions of the Patriot Act until 2020: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced a bill Tuesday night to extend through 2020 a controversial surveillance authority under the Patriot Act. The move comes as a bipartisan group of lawmakers in both chambers is preparing legislation to scale back the government's spying powers under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. It puts McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the bill’s co-sponsor, squarely on the side of advocates of the National Security Agency’s continued ability to collect millions of Americans’ phone records each day in the hunt for clues of terrorist activity.
I vote both ways, but at least the Ds didn't claim to be pro-small government and then turn around and support this shit. Hypocrisy has a nasty stink about it.
the "American" government is slowing becoming communist!
Our "leaders" want books banned, surveillance on innocent people, and yet,
none of them have to abide by ANY law.
I have long suspected that McConnell is/has-become a communist -- I've always known
he was an idiot. Too bad the people of Kentucky don't realize that. An education would help them,
but then McConnell would surely put a stop to schools.