(archived from November 19, 2014)
by Scott Creighton
UPDATE:
Justin
Raimondo has a good breakdown of the fraud of the USA Freedom Act
and argues many of the same points I do.
Rather than
fundamentally changing the way the NSA scoops up data, the
bill merely outsources
collection
to immunized telecoms,
compelling them to do the NSA’s dirty work…
The so-called
“transparency” provisions
in the bill contain
numerous loopholes..
Some civil liberties
groups, like the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, argue
that the present bill is “a
first step,”
and is better than nothing. This is nonsense: this
bill is worse than nothing.
——
“The bill will
retain the essential operational capabilities of the existing bulk
telephone metadata program while eliminating bulk collection.”
James Clapper on his support of the USA Freedom Act.
Last night the USA
“Freedom” Act,
written by the same man who brought us the USA “Patriot” Act, Jim
Sensenbrenner
, failed to clear a key procedural hurdle in the Senate which would
have allowed it’s supporters to bring it to the floor of the Senate
for a simple majority vote, which it would win easily with the lame
duck democratic Senate. The
vote was 58 to 42,
mainly down partisan lines with the dems supporting it by a wide
majority. The
pro-Business corporatist White House “strongly” supports the
bill.
I have written on
multiple occasions that the entire Edward Snowden psyop was designed
in order to pass a new version of CISPA which 800 major US
corporations sent advocates to D.C. to push for just a few months
prior to the launch of the Snowden psyop.