Surveillance State Wins – Senate Votes To Allow NSA Bulk Data Collection To Continue

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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!
Bloomberg reports that The Senate blocked legislation that would have limited the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of phone records, more than year after Edward Snowden exposed the extent of U. S. government surveillance programs.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 11/18/2014.