Amendment to defund NSA domestic surveillance programs - vote today

jryan21

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House Rep Justin Amash (R MI-3) is introducing an amendment to an appropriations bill that would pull funding from NSA programs like PRISM. It should go to a vote Wed. night or Thursday.

Needless to say, NSA is not very happy about it, and even the White House issued a statement on it:

In light of the recent unauthorized disclosures, the President has said that he welcomes a debate about how best to simultaneously safeguard both our national security and the privacy of our citizens. The Administration has taken various proactive steps to advance this debate including the President’s meeting with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, his public statements on the disclosed programs, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s release of its own public statements, ODNI General Counsel Bob Litt’s speech at Brookings, and ODNI’s decision to declassify and disclose publicly that the Administration filed an application with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. We look forward to continuing to discuss these critical issues with the American people and the Congress.

However, we oppose the current effort in the House to hastily dismantle one of our Intelligence Community’s counterterrorism tools. This blunt approach is not the product of an informed, open, or deliberative process. We urge the House to reject the Amash Amendment, and instead move forward with an approach that appropriately takes into account the need for a reasoned review of what tools can best secure the nation.
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Later, a brief response:
Justin Amash ‏@repjustinamash
U.S. gov't has come out in full force against you, the American people. I will always stand with you & the Constitution I swore to defend.

Justin Amash ‏@repjustinamash
#NSA's unconstitutional spying on ALL Americans was "not the product of an informed, open, or deliberative process." It must be stopped now.
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I doubt they will be able to get it passed, but this vote will be bipartisan. Those up for reelection in 2014 who vote against it are gonna get primaried. Their phone lines have been blowing up this week.
 


who really thinks this will stop with a vote?

F O O H

Edward Snowden is getting treated like a king while peasants argue about this
 
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