re: #121 Political Atheist

First things first. Passage. And then a touch of optimism the bill would survive time well. One thing I especially like. It brings the public eye in by way of an agency that oversees FISA.

Why do you think this bill would change things forever? Is there something about the bill that I’m not getting, or is it just like any other bill, which can be modified, repealed, etc?

The bill seems like a small number of modifications to the intelligence program and doesn’t go nearly far enough, in my estimation, while also being kind of redundant in other ways, having now taken a look at it. Increasing reporting requirements doesn’t matter when congress largely abdicates that role in the first place. Ending bulk collection— I assume they don’t mean that they’re criminalizing bulk collection by the 3rd parties, so I’m not sure how this would work in reality. Say the NSA wants to do a search of everyone who Mr. Ramjet Imaterrorist called during July, and everyone he sent messages to. Would this bill mean that the government had to provide that name to the 3rd party and have them do the search, or what?