Author of Patriot Act: ONLY look at foreigners NOT USA CITIZENS!!

[healthmyths]

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.), who authored and introduced the Patriot Act, said Thursday that he was troubled by reports the National Security Agency (NSA) had collected phone records from millions of Americans.

“As the author of the Patriot Act, I am extremely troubled by the FBI’s interpretation of this legislation,” Sensenbrenner said in a statement. “While I believe the Patriot Act appropriately balanced national security concerns and civil rights, I have always worried about potential abuses.”

The Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday night that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court had approved a court order that required Verizon to turn over metadata on all telephone calls handled since April 25, covering millions of Americans not suspected of committing any crimes

?Patriot Act? author troubled by NSA snooping

Under Bush the Patriot Act was ONLY and could ONLY be authorized to collect data on calls coming from outside USA and from questionable sources to American citizens.

In an interview on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Wednesday morning, the Republican congressman from Wisconsin reiterated his concerns that the administration and the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court have gone far beyond what the PATRIOT Act intended. Specifically, he said that Section 215 of the act “was originally drafted to prevent data mining” on the scale that’s occurred.
PATRIOT Act Author: Obama?s NSA Reassurances ?A Bunch of Bunk? « Pat Dollard

 

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Consider this. Right from the start, civil libertarians warned that the Patriot Act would be used against innocent Americans. Here's a typical example from a 2005 Washington Post story that quotes an ACLU lawyer: "Although the House Judiciary Committee's base bill does not expand the Patriot Act in the unwise and unwarranted way the Senate Intelligence Committee proposed, it can and must be modified to ensure that Patriot powers are focused on terrorists and not ordinary Americans."

On March 1, 2006, Sensenbrenner published an op-ed in USA Today dismissing critics who warned of future abuses (emphasis added):

Zero. That's the number of substantiated USA Patriot Act civil liberties violations. Extensive congressional oversight found no violations. Six reports by the Justice Department's independent inspector general, who is required to solicit and investigate any allegations of abuse, found no violations.

Intense public scrutiny has yet to find a single civil liberty abuse. Despite many challenges, no federal court has declared unconstitutional any of the Patriot Act provisions Congress is renewing.

Building upon this stellar record, congressional negotiators added more than 30 civil liberty safeguards not included in current law to ensure that the Patriot Act's authorities would not be abused in the future. Remarkably, that's still not enough for some.

The Patriot Act has kept us safer and has not violated anyone's civil rights. It deserves to be renewed.

For at least the third time, Sensenbrenner says that the FBI has betrayed the true intentions of the Patriot Act and violated the civil liberties of Americans. What ought to be obvious, by now, is that the law he wrote and championed -- and defended against the notion that it would be abused -- has been repeatedly abused because it is flawed.

Admit It, Rep. Sensenbrenner: You Were Wrong About the Patriot Act - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic

Everyone saw this was going to happen. When the ACLU spoke up they were shouted down. Now Repubs are just now finding out how bad it is. Welcome Repubs. Better late than...actually no. Next time just STFU and listen

 

[healthmyths]

BUT IT IS THE DEMOCRAT President that is doing this dummy!!! You are so laughable!!!

This president told us in 2005!:
“This is legislation that puts our own Justice Department above the law. When National Security Letters are issued, they allow federal agents to conduct any search on any American, no matter how extensive or wide-ranging, without ever going before a judge to prove that the search is necessary.”
Obama Criticized The Patriot Act in 2005 But Quickly Signed It As President « Dvorak News Blog

THE NYT's says he is worse!
The administration has now lost all credibility on this issue. Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive branch will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it. That is one reason we have long argued that the Patriot Act, enacted in the heat of fear after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by members of Congress who mostly had not even read it, was reckless in its assignment of unnecessary and overbroad surveillance powers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/president-obamas-dragnet.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

IT IS HIS Justice Department that has now included the USA citizens.
GOP followed the law! Obama is lawless!

 

[ClosedCaption]

Wait, are we talking about Sensenbrenners fake outrage or the President Abusing his power? You seem to shift around a lot.

Sensenbrenner is full of shit.
Obama is spying on everyone.

Do you agree? If not, why?

 

[boilermaker55]

Ya, right. LOL what a maroon.
Anyone who believes this.....stand on your head.

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.), who authored and introduced the Patriot Act, said Thursday that he was troubled by reports the National Security Agency (NSA) had collected phone records from millions of Americans.

“As the author of the Patriot Act, I am extremely troubled by the FBI’s interpretation of this legislation,” Sensenbrenner said in a statement. “While I believe the Patriot Act appropriately balanced national security concerns and civil rights, I have always worried about potential abuses.”

The Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday night that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court had approved a court order that required Verizon to turn over metadata on all telephone calls handled since April 25, covering millions of Americans not suspected of committing any crimes

?Patriot Act? author troubled by NSA snooping

Under Bush the Patriot Act was ONLY and could ONLY be authorized to collect data on calls coming from outside USA and from questionable sources to American citizens.

In an interview on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Wednesday morning, the Republican congressman from Wisconsin reiterated his concerns that the administration and the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court have gone far beyond what the PATRIOT Act intended. Specifically, he said that Section 215 of the act “was originally drafted to prevent data mining” on the scale that’s occurred.
PATRIOT Act Author: Obama?s NSA Reassurances ?A Bunch of Bunk? « Pat Dollard

 

[NYcarbineer]

BUT IT IS THE DEMOCRAT President that is doing this dummy!!! You are so laughable!!!

This president told us in 2005!:
“This is legislation that puts our own Justice Department above the law. When National Security Letters are issued, they allow federal agents to conduct any search on any American, no matter how extensive or wide-ranging, without ever going before a judge to prove that the search is necessary.”
Obama Criticized The Patriot Act in 2005 But Quickly Signed It As President « Dvorak News Blog

THE NYT's says he is worse!
The administration has now lost all credibility on this issue. Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive branch will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it. That is one reason we have long argued that the Patriot Act, enacted in the heat of fear after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by members of Congress who mostly had not even read it, was reckless in its assignment of unnecessary and overbroad surveillance powers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/president-obamas-dragnet.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

IT IS HIS Justice Department that has now included the USA citizens.
GOP followed the law! Obama is lawless!

Obama voted for the 2005 Patriot Act.

Obtaining phone records of Americans is authorized in the FISA act of 1978.

 

[Billo_Really]

Under Bush the Patriot Act was ONLY and could ONLY be authorized to collect data on calls coming from outside USA and from questionable sources to American citizens.

That's what Bush said, it's not what he did.

He requested the phone records of over 200 million American's.

Bush has got blood on his hands, but on this subject, Obama is worse.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Under Bush the Patriot Act was ONLY and could ONLY be authorized to collect data on calls coming from outside USA and from questionable sources to American citizens.

That's what Bush said, it's not what he did.

He requested the phone records of over 200 million American's.

Bush has got blood on his hands, but on this subject, Obama is worse.

what you don't understand is that what Bush says Repubs believe, fuck reality