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Re:We Only Have Hours Left to Stop the NSA Expansion Bill by 0xfeba on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @10:25AM (#15970312)
The boat was built and set sail under Bush and the GOP congress, under the super-Orwellian PATRIOT Act. I am not happy Obama expanded their powers but fail to see how the GOP would make the situation better.
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Re:We Only Have Hours Left to Stop the NSA Expansion Bill by CWuestefeld on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @10:48AM (#15970530)
The boat has been under construction for decades. The FISA courts were set up in 1978 (that's the Democrat Carter, and I believe that it was Democratic Congress at the time, too), but even that was only a response, trying to rein in the national surveillance apparatus that was already running wild. Reagan upped it a notch with Exec Order 12333, GWB obviously built on top of that, and Obama went hog-wild with it. There's plenty of blame to drown both parties.
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Re:We Only Have Hours Left to Stop the NSA Expansion Bill by njarboe on Thursday December 21, 2017 @08:09AM (#15978483)
Don't forget the grand daddy: J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director, 1924-1971.
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Re:We Only Have Hours Left to Stop the NSA Expansion Bill by 0xfeba on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @12:50PM (#15971923)
That's true. Myopic of me.
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