Cenk Uygur
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Congress Sneaks CISA Into Omnibus Bill. NSA Gets Everything.
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December 24, 2015
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7:02Now PlayingHere’s another story on how the government is screwing you and taking your privacy rights. CISA was defeated in an epic political battle only to be snuck into a giant omnibus bill a little while later, because corporations own this country. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"In a late-night session of Congress, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced a new version of the “omnibus” bill, a massive piece of legislation that deals with much of the federal government’s funding. It now includes a version of CISA as well. Lumping CISA in with the omnibus bill further reduces any chance for debate over its surveillance-friendly provisions, or a White House veto. And the latest version actually chips away even further at the remaining personal information protections that privacy advocates had fought for in the version of the bill that passed the Senate.
“They took a bad bill, and they made it worse,” says Robyn Greene, policy counsel for the Open Technology Institute.”*
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