re: #152 jaunte

Nine Dashed-Off Points on the NSA “Scandal”

That write-up makes a good point about recent votes covering this area. For example, the 2011 Patriot Act extension: politics.nytimes.com

Comparing where various congresswomen & men voted on the extension should be a useful aide for seeing exactly who is feigning outrage tomorrow.

Revisions: thomas.loc.gov@R
Roll Call -
House: clerk.house.gov
Senate: senate.gov

WaPo source: “the order appears to be a routine renewal of a similar order first issued by the same court in 2006.” http://t.co/FfSzGbiLkL

— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) June 6, 2013

“After the September 2001 terrorist attacks, the Bush administration began a secret NSA program for the bulk collection of Americans’ call records as part of a broader counterterrorism effort that included the wiretapping of Americans’ international phone communications with suspected terrorists without a warrant. The latter effort was put under secret court supervision in 2007. But until now, there had been no evidence that the call records program, whose disclosure by USA Today in 2006 created an uproar, continued under the Obama administration.”