From
Jim Patterico...
Senators are
questioning whether the National Security Agency collected bulk data on more
than just Americans’ phone records, such as firearm
and book purchases.
A
bipartisan group of 26 senators, led by Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) asked
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to detail the scope and limits
of the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities in a letter released
Friday.
“We are concerned
that by depending on secret interpretations of the PATRIOT Act that differed
from an intuitive reading of the statute, this program essentially relied for
years on a secret body of law,” the senators wrote in the letter.
The NSA’s
surveillance program has come under intense scrutiny following a leak revealing
the agency harvested the phone metadata of millions of American citizens.
The senators noted
that the federal government’s authority under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act is
broad and rife with potential for abuse. Among
the senators’ concerns was whether the NSA’s bulk data harvesting program could
be used to construct a gun registry or
violate other privacy laws.
Wyden, as we know, has this way of asking questions that he
already knows the answers to.
Maybe a back-door
national gun registry will be one of the revelations we’ll hear from Edward
Snowden. If he isn’t too busy appeasing the various anti-free-speech thugs
whose help he needs to escape from us, that is.
I have given myself
permission to be disgusted by both Snowden and the U.S. Government these days.
There may not be that many good guys, but there are plenty of bad guys to go
around.
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