A controversial proposal to restrict how the National Security Agency collects Americans’ telephone records failed to advance in the House by a narrow margin Wednesday, a victory for the Obama administration, which has spent weeks defending the program.Read the rest here.
Lawmakers voted 217 to 205 to defeat the proposal from an unlikely coalition of liberal and conservative members. Those lawmakers had joined forces in response to revelations by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor, that the agency has collected the phone records of millions of Americans — a practice that critics say goes beyond the kind of collection that has been authorized by Congress.
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My hope that this opens a lot of folks' eyes is probably in vain.
ReplyDeleteFootball's just about to start, and the latest political wedge issue will be unleashed soon which will provide plenty of cover for the masquerade to continue.