Surveillance State Wins – Senate Votes To Allow NSA Bulk Data Collection To Continue
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
11/18/2014
Senate leaders failed to get the 60 votes needed to advance The USA Freedom Act – which would have limited the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of phone records – and as Bloomberg reports, it’s unlikely a new version can be drafted for another vote before the congressional term expires this year. The 58-42 vote to move the measure forward came mostly along party lines as Senator Saxby Chambliss – the top Republican on the intelligence committee – rambling that the bill “eliminates tools critical to the intelligence community’s ability to prevent terrorist attacks, and its adoption would greatly degrade our ability to fight domestic terrorism in particular.” In other words – it’s for own good, now shut up!
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