Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Congressional negotiators are scrambling over the Memorial Day recess to rustle up the votes required to pass legislation to rein in the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of phone records but preserve the government’s domestic surveillance program. This race against the clock would never have become necessary — and shouldn’t have — but for a group of senators intent on scuttling sensible legislation authored by U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.). Sensenbrenner’s USA Freedom Act would end the government’s massive eavesdropping program revealed two years ago by whistle-blower Edward Snowden. His bill overwhelmingly passed the House but fell three votes short of the 60 needed for passage last week in the Senate. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), whose hours-long monologue on Friday made passage impossible, wants to go farther: He has vowed to block reauthorization of the bill until the Senate votes to end the section of the Patriot Act used by the NSA to justify the dragnet of phone records. But Paul, a presidential candidate who has used his filibustering to raise funds for his campaign, is wrong. The better course (though less lucrative for his campaign) would have been simple support for Sensenbrenner’s bill. The USA Freedom Act represents a […]
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