Congress Passed Spy Bill - Gives Unlimited Access to Communications to Feds and Police

[Hawkingbird]

Full text of the bill here

H.R.4681 - 113th Congress (2013-2014): Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal...

Republications trying to stop the bill at the last minute

GOP rep attempted late bid to kill spy bill

One of the biggest thorns in the side of the country’s intelligence agencies attempted to mount an eleventh hour bid to kill the spy agencies’ funding bill on Wednesday.

Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) wrote on Facebook that the intelligence authorization bill that easily passed through the House contained “one of the most egregious sections of law I’ve encountered during my time as a representative.”

“It grants the executive branch virtually unlimited access to the communications of every American,” explained Amash, who has a record of skepticism toward the National Security Agency and other agencies. Last year, he nearly succeeded in an attempt to end the NSA’s controversial phone records program.
The bill was originally set to be considered with just a simple voice vote, but Amash rushed to the House floor on Wednesday to demand a recorded vote. He also fired off a letter to his fellow lawmakers warning them not to back the bill.

Hidden in the law is “a troubling new provision that for the first time statutorily authorizes spying on U.S. citizens without legal process,” Amash told other lawmakers.

That provision allows “the acquisition, retention, and dissemination” of Americans’ communications without a court order or subpoena.

That type of collection is currently allowed under an executive order that dates back to former President Reagan, but the new stamp of approval from Congress was troubling, Amash said. Limits on the government’s ability to retain information in the provision did not satisfy the Michigan Republican.

Despite Amash’s late attempt, the bill easily passed, 325-100.

The bill passed the Senate earlier this week and is now on its way to President Obama.

Don’t let this happen. Gotta spread this shit.

[XthAtGAm3RGuYX]

Foolish thread created by a foolishly foolhardy fool overcome by foolishness.

You see, I spent a few minutes reading through the initial post trying to figure out why this was called a “spy bill”. You know since it only really talks about torture and ISIS and other such current buzz words for politics. What OP forgot to mention, is this little snippet

“It grants the executive branch virtually unlimited access to the communications of every American,”

So there you go Hawkingbird. Those largely uninterested in politics or lawmaking in general, now care when they read this thread. Personally I almost didnt give a shit until I seen that part.

[Hawkingbird]

So there you go Hawkingbird. Those largely uninterested in politics or lawmaking in general, now care when they read this thread. Personally I almost didnt give a shit until I seen that part.

Removed to first article to clear things up. Hope that helps

[TheFreshPrince]

Fuck this shitty country.

[Iduno]

Right, time to start adding every word you think will flag on their searchs onto the end of every piece of communication, no matter how inane.

Lets see how many posts about what people are having for dinner, how Aunt Whatshername is doing and how “that bird the other night was proper fine did u get her number?” the government can sit through and endure before they just give up.

ISIS, Terrorism, Fuck the police, Communism, Jihad, The Earth wasn’t made in 7 days, Evolution happened, Minimum wage should be livable

[Don_Barracuda]

thats fucked up

coming to the UK soon no doubt if we leave the EU.

[XthAtGAm3RGuYX]

Right, time to start adding every word you think will flag on their searchs onto the end of every piece of communication, no matter how inane.

Lets see how many posts about what people are having for dinner, how Aunt Whatshername is doing and how “that bird the other night was proper fine did u get her number?” the government can sit through and endure before they just give up.

ISIS, Terrorism, Fuck the police, Communism, Jihad, The Earth wasn’t made in 7 days, Evolution happened, Minimum wage should be livable

9/11, Al-Qaeda, Anthrax, pipe bombs, Pentagon attack, Chemical Weapons, Fuel Rods, Journalist kidnap, beheading, durka durka mohammed jihad

[Colonel-Gilgamesh]

I suspect that those senators were all secretly this guy

Spoiler

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/013/7/3/team_fortress_2_wallpaper_happy_spy_by_dunkmovies-d5rg9xh.jpg

[Ash_Crimson]

Well hey, if you want to be safe…

[Volkan]

They have had access to all of our information ever since you were born anyway. This is not news. The government runs everything and keeps track of everything you do from the moment of your birth.

I wouldn’t even bother fearing this information since that will only manifest a negative reality for me.

[dodgers2213]

ah I remember how this was just a “neocon” and George W Bush evil plot. MSNBC would have rants each day to impeach the evil republicans for destroying civil liberties. You think MSNBC really cares any more of the expanded spying powers since Obama took office? America hasn’t cared for a long time now

[DoctaMario]

MSNBC is very liberal and they cater to that type of audience. It’s amazing to me how a media outlet like them or like Rush Limbaugh will shit on something that deprives people of liberties when the party they don’t like does it, yet will embrace it when their chosen party does the same thing.

We DESPERATELY need more than two parties here in the US. The fact that we don’t have more than two viable parties is a crime.

[Starhammer]

Right, time to start adding every word you think will flag on their searchs onto the end of every piece of communication, no matter how inane.

Lets see how many posts about what people are having for dinner, how Aunt Whatshername is doing and how “that bird the other night was proper fine did u get her number?” the government can sit through and endure before they just give up.

ISIS, Terrorism, Fuck the police, Communism, Jihad, The Earth wasn’t made in 7 days, Evolution happened, Minimum wage should be livable

Think it’ll work if I quote a post somebody else made? let’s find out, shall we?

Ironically enough, I had my internet cut off yesterday because of a porno I had downloaded. As Shang Tsung would say…“IT HAS BEGUN!”

-Starhammer-

[crucades]

thats fucked up

coming to the UK soon no doubt if we leave the EU.

Lol man the GCHQ is ahead of you, already spying on us, the EU, Russia, US, China… fucking everywhere. All that shit about the US spying on EU countries earlier in the year, all passed through the GCHQ. Only thing keeping this lil island relevant tbh.