Senate Advances Expanded, "Orwellian" Government Surveillance With FISA Amendments, CISPA
May 24, 2012
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as posted by the channelDemocracyNow.org - The Senate is closer to renewing controversial measures that critics say would allow the emails and phone calls of U.S. citizens to be monitored without a warrant. The Select Committee on Intelligence has voted to extend controversial amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that were set to expire at the end of this year. We speak with Michelle Richardson of the American Civil Liberties Union, which has sued over the U.S. government's surveillance practices, saying agencies would be able to tap their communications with clients and sources overseas. We're also joined by William Binney, who served in the National Security Agency for nearly 40 years, including a stint as technical director of its World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group. Since retiring from the NSA in 2001, Binney has warned that the NSA's data-mining program has become so vast that it could "create an Orwellian state." "This is a continuation of the mindless legislation that our Congress has been putting out just to justify what they've been doing for a decade or more," Binney says. "Instead of living up to their oath of office [and] defend the Constitution, they've decided to violate the civil liberties and the rights of all U.S. citizens." The Senate is also set to vote soon on the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act — a bill opposed by many civil liberties and privacy groups.
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