Archived Obama: 'Handful of senators' standing in way of Patriot Act (yahoo.com)
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Archived Obama: 'Handful of senators' standing in way of Patriot Act (yahoo.com)
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[–] fleas 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago
Better headline "Handful of Senators stand up for civil liberties"
[–] belrial 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
Handful of senators stand for civil liberties while president and rest of politicians want to extend unconstitutional liberty violations.
[–] Joliet_Jake_Blues ago
Ehh, that's not entirely true.
The bill they are trying to pass has a lot of oversight mechanisms. If they don't pass it, we will go to the pre-Patriot Act program that had a ton of domestic spying, without any oversight.
It's more like, "Handful of Senators stand in the way of oversight because their supporters are too stupid to know what's in the new bill."
[–] fleas 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
To insinuate that there was as much legal domestic spying pre patriot act and extending the new bill is about really about oversight is disingenuous at best.