On July 24 the United States House of Representatives narrowly defeated a bill that would have ended the National Security Agency’s ability to collect phone records of millions of Americans. Michigan Congressman Justin Amash’s amendment to a defense spending bill would have stripped NSA funding used for the bulk collection of phone records of ordinary law-abiding Americans. Had the bill passed, the NSA would not have been allowed to continue phone surveillance of those not under investigation for anything.The measure lost 205 to 217, with Congress Member Ed Royce voting against it. Mr. Royce, whose 39th Congressional District includes most of Fullerton, evidently believes it is perfectly fine for the NSA to spy on anyone they want to without demonstrating any probable cause….
Not cool Mr Royce. I hope the local GOP takes you to the woodshed.
*Go Eduardo…you Go boy! We don’t need no stinking phone companies handling that National Security Info…..for too long….and think about it this way…..what would the NSA do with that huge building called the Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah? Park cars for future sales of Toyota vehicles for China?
It’s stunning to me that any American can’t see how dangerous this “vacuum without probable cause” is to a free society. The whole principle of “probable cause” exists because your founders understood that government could not be trusted with blanket invasion of your person and papers.
By flushing this sacred American principal down the toilet you have given Bin Laden everything he dreamed of – one strike and down goes the American constitution and America itself.