{"id":2838,"date":"2014-12-11T15:05:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2014-12-11T15:05:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T20:05:10","slug":"congress-just-passed-legislation-ramping-up-mass-surveillance-to-super-steroid-levels-washingtons-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2838","title":{"rendered":"Congress Just Passed Legislation Ramping Up Mass Surveillance to Super-Steroid Levels Washington&#8217;s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/12\/congress-just-passed-legislation-ramping-mass-surveillance-super-steroid-levels.html\">Congress Just Passed Legislation Ramping Up Mass Surveillance to Super-Steroid Levels Washington&#8217;s Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; font-weight: normal; color: #000099; line-height: 1.5em; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Fascist Power Grab Wipes out 4th Amendment<\/h3>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Remember how Americans are\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"overwhelmingly opposed to mass surveillance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/11\/majority-of-americans-opposed-to-spying-on-foreign-leaders.html\">overwhelmingly opposed to mass surveillance<\/a>, and how the government promised to rein in spying on Americans?<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"Yeah, that never happened\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/01\/american-people-right-obama-refuses-rein-nsa-spying.html\">Yeah, that never happened<\/a>\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Instead, Congress snuck a provision into the Intelligence Authorization Act which will ramp up spying on us normal, average, innocent Americans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Congressman Justin Amash\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"explains\" href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=812569822115759&amp;id=173604349345646&amp;refid=17\" target=\"_blank\">explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px 3em 0px 3em; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">When I learned that the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2015 was being rushed to the floor for a vote\u2014with little debate and only a voice vote expected (i.e., simply declared \u201cpassed\u201d with almost nobody in the room)\u2014I asked my legislative staff to quickly review the bill for unusual language. What they discovered is one of the most egregious sections of law I\u2019ve encountered during my time as a representative:<wbr \/>\u00a0It<strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">grants the executive branch virtually unlimited access to the communications of every American<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <w:WordDocument>\n  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n  <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:UseMarginsForDrawingGridOrigin\/>\n <\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: LucidaGrande; color: #282828;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress Just Passed Legislation Ramping Up Mass Surveillance to Super-Steroid Levels Washington&#8217;s Blog. Fascist Power Grab Wipes out 4th Amendment Remember how Americans are\u00a0overwhelmingly opposed to mass surveillance, and how the government promised to rein in spying on Americans? Yeah, that never happened\u00a0\u2026 Instead, Congress snuck a provision into the Intelligence Authorization Act which will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1272,1543,1850,765],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-congress","tag-digital-surveillance","tag-intelligence-authorization-act","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}