{"id":7518,"date":"2015-04-23T07:33:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T12:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7518"},"modified":"2015-04-23T07:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T12:33:36","slug":"gop-establishment-queen-mitch-mcconnell-introduces-patriot-act-reauthorization-with-zero-nsa-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7518","title":{"rendered":"GOP Establishment Queen Mitch McConnell Introduces Patriot Act Reauthorization with Zero NSA Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/04\/22\/gop-establishment-queen-mitch-mcconnell-introduces-patriot-act-reauthorization-with-zero-nsa-reforms\/\" target=\"_blank\">GOP Establishment Queen Mitch McConnell Introduces Patriot Act Reauthorization with Zero NSA Reforms<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Late last week, I published a post about Patriot Act reauthorization that turned out to be extremely popular. It was titled,\u00a0<a title=\"Permanent Link to Congress is Attempting to Reauthorize Key Patriot Act Provisions by Sneaking it Into \u201cUSA Freedom Act\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/04\/17\/congress-is-attempting-to-reauthorize-key-patriot-act-provisions-by-sneaking-it-into-usa-freedom-act\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><strong>Congress is Attempting to Reauthorize Key Patriot Act Provisions by Sneaking it Into \u201cUSA Freedom Act.<\/strong>\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Here\u2019s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>June 1, 2015 is a very important day for American civil liberties and the Constitution. On that day, Section 215 of the Patriot Act, one of the most egregious pieces of legislation passed in U.S.\u00a0history, will expire automatically without reauthorization from Congress. Naturally, this is causing a panic attack within the heart of the NSA, FBI and all the\u00a0authoritarian lackey legislators\u00a0in Washington D.C. With the chances of a clean reauthorization next to none, these crafty \u201crepresentatives\u201d and their puppeteers need to figure out a way to sneak it into another piece of legislation. What better way to do this than making it a part of something that ostensibly appears to be reining in surveillance powers. Enter the USA Freedom Act.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As mentioned, it is widely believed that there isn\u2019t enough support for straight reauthorization unaccompanied by some sort of NSA reform, but that won\u2019t\u00a0stop GOP establishment queen Mitch McConnell from trying.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell is amongst the most freedom hating, constitution trampling\u00a0Republican members in\u00a0the Senate, sharing this distinction with John McCain and Lindsey Graham. What makes McConnell far more dangerous is his position as Senate Majority Leader. Today, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/mcconnell-introduces-bill-to-extend-nsa-surveillance\/2015\/04\/21\/fa4b66aa-e89d-11e4-aae1-d642717d8afa_story.html\"><em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0informed us<\/a>\u00a0how he\u2019s wielding such power:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/apps.washingtonpost.com\/g\/documents\/politics\/bill-introduced-by-sen-mitch-mcconnell\/1522\/\">bill<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday night to extend through 2020 a controversial surveillance authority under the Patriot Act.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The move comes as a bipartisan group of lawmakers in both chambers is preparing legislation to scale back the government\u2019s spying powers under Section 215 of the Patriot Act.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP Establishment Queen Mitch McConnell Introduces Patriot Act Reauthorization with Zero NSA Reforms Late last week, I published a post about Patriot Act reauthorization that turned out to be extremely popular. It was titled,\u00a0Congress is Attempting to Reauthorize Key Patriot Act Provisions by Sneaking it Into \u201cUSA Freedom Act.\u201d\u00a0Here\u2019s an excerpt: June 1, 2015 is [&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":[4914,301,338,483,2304,551,577,613,712,1796,4810],"class_list":["post-7518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-civil-liberty","tag-fbi","tag-freedom","tag-liberty-2","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-national-security-agency","tag-nsa","tag-patriot-act","tag-security","tag-us-congress","tag-usa-freedom-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518","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=7518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7519,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518\/revisions\/7519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}