{"id":29636,"date":"2018-01-11T16:48:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T21:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29636"},"modified":"2018-01-11T16:48:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T21:48:15","slug":"house-passes-legislation-renewing-controversial-nsa-surveillance-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29636","title":{"rendered":"House Passes Legislation Renewing Controversial NSA Surveillance Program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Passes Legislation Renewing Controversial NSA Surveillance Program<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Update 3: <\/strong>The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has been renewed by the House of Representatives. Originally enacted in 1978, the act outlines the lawful procedure for collecting foreign intelligence. FISA Section 702 allows the US government to pull in communications from foreign nationals but does not permit surveillance of US citizens, even if they are suspected of criminality or terrorism. Ahead of a vote to extend FISA for six years, US President Donald\u00a0Trump initially hit out at the key intelligence provision, although later updated his stance through a tweet declaring that the country needs FISA.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/span>Donald J. Trump<\/span><\/span><\/a>
\n\u2714<\/b><\/span><\/span>@realDonaldTrump<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cHouse votes on controversial FISA ACT today.\u201d This is the act that may have been used, with the help of the discredited and phony Dossier, to so badly surveil and abuse the Trump Campaign by the previous administration and others?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"<\/span>Donald J. Trump<\/span><\/span><\/a>
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With that being said, I have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and today\u2019s vote is about foreign\u00a0surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land. We need it! Get smart!<\/p>\n

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As Glenn Greenwald notes, this is the list of House Democrats who stood with Trump, Devin Nunes and the NSA to ensure ongoing warrantless eavesdropping on Americans, adding “Note how many of the leading #Resistance leaders are on this list.<\/strong>“<\/div>\n

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\"\"<\/span>George Zornick<\/span><\/span><\/a>
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55 House Democrats – including Pelosi, Hoyer, Schiff – voted to kill a surveillance reform bill that would have (among other things) added a\u00a0warrant requirement to 702 searches.<\/p>\n

Full list of Dem ‘no’ votes:<\/p>\n

12:08 PM – Jan 11, 2018<\/a><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Passes Legislation Renewing Controversial NSA Surveillance Program Update 3: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has been renewed by the House of Representatives. Originally enacted in 1978, the act outlines the lawful procedure for collecting foreign intelligence. FISA Section 702 allows the US government to pull in communications from foreign nationals but does not permit […]<\/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":[7844,6056,13015,551,577,765,4393],"class_list":["post-29636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-donald-trump","tag-fisa","tag-foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act","tag-national-security-agency","tag-nsa","tag-surveillance","tag-us-house-of-representatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29636","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=29636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29637,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29636\/revisions\/29637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}