Source: thinkprogress.org - Tuesday, March 24, 2015
CREDIT: AP Overshadowed by congressional budget talks, Reps. Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) quietly introduced the strongest anti-surveillance bill to date that would strip the government of much of its spying power. “This isn’t just tinkering around the edges, it’s a meaningful overhaul that makes sure the meaningless surveillance of emails and cell phones are done away with,” Pocan said in a briefing for congressional staffers Tuesday. The Surveillance State Repeal Act, or HR 1466, aims to repeal the Patriot Act, including the controversial telephony metadata collection program, and strip many of the surveillance permissions granted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act amendments passed under President George W. Bush in 2008. Reps. Alan Grayson (D-FL), James McGovern (D-MA), and Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) are original co-sponsors on the bill, which was ushered in March 19. Surveillance has been a prominent in public debate since former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden’s massive document leak exposed several government intelligence programs, namely the NSA’s dragnet telephone metadata collection. But despite public outrage over civil liberties violations and calls for immediate reform, little has been done since Snowden’s 2013 revelations. The controversial phone metadata surveillance program was reauthorized for the fifth time under Section 215 of the Patriot Act extended until June . Other sec
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CREDIT: AP Overshadowed by congressional budget talks, Reps. Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) quietly introduced the strongest anti-surveillance bill to date that would strip the government of much of its spying power. “This isn’t just tinkering around the edges, it’s a meaningful overhaul that makes sure the meaningless surveillance of emails and cell phones are done away with,” Pocan said in a briefing for congressional staffers Tuesday. The Surveillance State Repeal Act, or HR 1466, aims to repeal the Patriot Act, including the controversial telephony metadata collection program, and strip many of the surveillance permissions granted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act amendments passed under President George W. Bush in 2008. Reps. Alan Grayson (D-FL), James McGovern (D-MA), and Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) are original co-sponsors on the bill, which was ushered in March 19. Surveillance has been a prominent in public debate since former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden’s massive document leak exposed several government intelligence programs, namely the NSA’s dragnet telephone metadata collection. But despite public outrage over civil liberties violations and calls for immediate reform, little has been done since Snowden’s 2013 revelations. The controversial phone metadata surveillance program was reauthorized for the fifth time under Section 215 of the Patriot Act extended until June . Other sec
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