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Alarm as Trump Requests Permanent Reauthorization of NSA Mass Spying Program Exposed by Snowden

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Saturday, August 17, 2019 6:04 PM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

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Alarm as Trump Requests Permanent Reauthorization of NSA Mass Spying Program Exposed by Snowden
"The White House is calling for reauthorization of a program that security agencies have used to spy on innocent people, violate their privacy, and chill free speech."
by Jake Johnson, staff writer

Civil liberties groups and privacy advocates raised alarm Thursday after the Trump administration called on Congress to reauthorize an NSA mass surveillance program that was exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The New York Times, which obtained the Trump administration's request to Congress, reported that "the administration urged lawmakers to make permanent the legal authority for the National Security Agency to gain access to logs of Americans' domestic communications, the USA Freedom Act."

"It's long past time that this surveillance program was shuttered once and for all."
—Patrick Toomey, ACLU

"The law, enacted after the intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden revealed the existence of the program in 2013, is set to expire in December, but the Trump administration wants it made permanent," according to the Times.

The administration claimed in its letter to Congress—which was signed by outgoing National Intelligence chief Dan Coats—that the NSA has suspended the spying program, but Free Press Action government relations director Sandra Fulton said in a statement that this "should give little comfort to those whose privacy rights are routinely violated by authorities."

"The White House is calling for reauthorization of a program that security agencies have used to spy on innocent people, violate their privacy, and chill free speech," said Fulton. "The NSA program permits the mapping of relationships among members of marginalized communities and distant associates of targeted individuals, even when most individuals in those communities were never suspected of wrongdoing."

"Historically, authorities have used such overbroad authority to harass members of these communities," Fulton added, "especially those who speak out when their rights are under threat."

Patrick Toomey, senior staff attorney for the ACLU's National Security Project, urged Congress to ignore the Trump administration's request and let the surveillance program die.

"It's long past time that this surveillance program was shuttered once and for all," Toomey told the Times. "The NSA has been vacuuming up hundreds of millions of Americans' call records as part of a program that is hopelessly complex and lacks any discernible evidence of its value. We should not leave such a sweeping, unaccountable power in the hands of our spy agencies."

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Saturday, August 17, 2019 9:05 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thank you Kiki for finally showing me something to be adamantly against Trump for.

Why does it not surprise me that any of the Lefties that are pro-censorship haven't chimed in yet?

But let's be honest. Nobody ever stopped any surveillance program. It was going on 15 years before Snowden blew the whistle and everyone I told about it said I was crazy, and it never stopped, not even for a single day, after Snowden risked his life to let everyone know about it.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Saturday, August 17, 2019 10:59 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Really? Then Trump is a dick about this..

LET'S SEE HOW WELL HOUSE DEMOCRATS PROTECT OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.

My guess is ... not at all. That's one of the things that Dems and the GOP agree on: How to screw the Constitution and the rights of us "little people". Well, that and war. I'd be very happy to be proven wrong but I'll bet Nancy Pelosi folds like a cheap suit.

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So what can I learn from this? It seems to me that Trump's version of the "deep state" isn't my version of the "deep state". I would have thought that the spook agencies ... the ones that drummed up that completely bogus "Russia collusion" hysteria ... would be ront and center on Trump's radar. But maybe this is really all about money ... the banks, the Fed, the petrodollar,

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