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| House members remain concerned after FBI/NSA briefing on PRISM - HotAir |
| 2013-06-12 |
| Members of Congress yesterday expressed growing doubts about the way the country's "Growing doubts" but no interest in flipping over the rocks ? Emerging from an early evening closed-door briefing with officials from the National Security Agency, the Justice Department and the FBI, some members of the House of Representatives said they had more questions than answers about the surveillance programs that sweep up records from phone and Internet accounts belonging to millions of Americans. "I think what really came out of it is that we need, as Congress, is to move forward and debate the issue," said Rep. C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee. "It's really a debate on how far we go with public safety, and protecting us from terrorist attacks, versus how far we go on the other side and what programs we use to deal with that issue. This is what we do in Congress." Any mention or concern for constitutional legality ? Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said there "obviously" needs to be more congressional oversight on the telephone surveillance program, under which so-called metadata from cellphone records are surrendered to the FBI and the NSA on a daily basis. "I did not know a billion records a day were coming under control of the executive branch," Sherman said. A billion records a day? What kind of records would those be? It doesn't sound like that's just metadata from Verizon, which is big but not that big. "What kind of records"....short answer, ALL records, just ask a very nervous Google. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 I'm not sure how looking through everyone's data is more effective than just spending the same effort focussing on warranted suspects data... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-06-12 13:51 |
| #1 We have top men working on it right now. Yep. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-06-12 13:26 |