The
Church Committee, established in 1975 to audit the intelligence
community following Watergate, learned that in the 1950s the CIA and the
FBI had intercepted and collected the contents of over more than
215,000 pieces of mail belonging to US citizens. And indeed, surveilling
US citizens is in the NSA's pedigree; recently, declassified documents
revealed that Martin Luther King Jr, Muhammad Ali, and other prominent
Americans were targets of NSA surveillance during the Vietnam War, from
1967 to 1973.The current chair of the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, Senator Dianne Feinstein, is one of the most ardent
supporters of NSA bulk surveillance and originally downplayed the
Verizon leak as business-as-usual.
In
October, Feinstein took out an op-ed in USA Today,Groupon is gaining a
true strategic advantage by providing its national merchants with access
to DMAA first
party redemption data that they can't get anywhere else, said Catherine
Tabor, CEO and founder of Sparkfly. arguing that metadata deserves no
Fourth Amendment protection. On October 31st,It is no coincidence that
all the new restaurants v just mentioned, including Mr. Maws's, are more
casual and less expensive than their flagships.Best Canoe for Sale Feinstein
passed an NSA "improvement" bill in Congress offering no real reform;
in fact, the Feinstein bill legitimizes the mass data collection that
has so far been justified in secret.Some lawmakers, however, are working
to reverse mass surveillance of US citizens. On October 29th, Senator
Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Patriot Act co-author Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner
(R, WI) introduced the "Freedom Act," which would end bulk data
collection by rewriting Section 215 of the Patriot Act and creating new
limits on FAA Section 702. Others, like Senator Ron Wyden, (D, OR), have
issued repeated warnings about the NSA's capabilities. "The combination
of increasingly advanced technology with a breakdown in the checks and
balances that limit government action could lead to a surveillance state
that cannot be reversed," Wyden said earlier this year. "What happens
to our government, our civil liberties, and our basic democracy if the
surveillance state is allowed to grow unchecked?"
Finally,
the judicial branch, which has secretly authorized mass NSA spying over
the past decade in collaboration with the executive and legislative
branches, could play a role in reform. While some tech companies are
currently suing the government to release gag orders preventing them
from informing customers about how many data requests the government
makes, such efforts are largely cosmetic, and won't impact data
collection. The American Civil Liberties Union, Public Knowledge, the
Open Technology Institute, Free Press,Volunteers are an essential part
of Targa, he says, "and without them there is sup paddles no
way that an event like this can run smoothly. Human Rights Watch, and
others have sued to end the telephone dragnet, arguing that the
collection violates the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments.
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