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Originally Posted by pornmasta
Successful police state is successful
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more like shitty media is shitty
directly from the aclu::::::::::::::
To hear some in the press tell it, Congress could not be more indifferent to the recent revelations that the NSA is collecting all of the phone records of all law-abiding Americans.
But the press, and the American people, shouldn't write off Congress just yet: a civil-libertarian energy is stirring.
Since the Guardian broke the story about the NSA's bulk collection of innocent Americans' call records, many members of Congress have been pushing back at blanket government surveillance. They've made statement after statement criticizing the government's broad collection programs. Some have even argued there is no evidence these programs have thwarted attacks.
But most tellingly, legislators are filing legislation left and right to compel more disclosure about these programs and rein them in. The bills are coming from both Democrats and Republicans, including members who voted for the Patriot Act in the past but feel misled about how it's been used.
In little less than 3 weeks, six bipartisan pieces of legislation to rollback NSA spying have been introduced:
http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-se...continues-grow