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Topic: Senate bill rewrite lets
feds read your e-mail
without warrants |
Senate bill rewrite lets
feds read your e-mail
without warrants
CNET News, by Declan McCullagh
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Original Article
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 11/20/2012 12:45:01 PM
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| A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans´ e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law. CNET has learned that Patrick Leahy, the influential Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, has dramatically reshaped his legislation in response to law enforcement concerns. A vote on his bill, which now authorizes warrantless access to Americans´ e-mail, is scheduled for next week. Leahy´s rewritten bill would allow more than 22 agencies -- including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Communications Commission --
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Comments:
This just sickens me what has become of our country. As if they don´t read them now.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
chief568, 11/20/2012 12:51:15 PM (No. 9025791)
STILL has to pass the HOUSE! KILL the thing!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Northcross, 11/20/2012 12:51:40 PM (No. 9025793)
Can you imagine the caterwauling if this had happened under President Bush or a Republican Senate. But with Democrats, crickets. Any comments from the ACLU? I didn´t think so.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Grampy, 11/20/2012 12:56:47 PM (No. 9025809)
The ACLU and the left went nuts about the patriot act. Hypocrisy on display.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Vivi, 11/20/2012 12:57:37 PM (No. 9025812)
No time for yeeears to pass a budget in the middle of a fiscal crisis, but plenty of time to invade the privacy of citizen serfs.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Johnny Angle, 11/20/2012 1:02:24 PM (No. 9025829)
Among the other monstrosities, it gives the power to the FEDERAL RESERVE?? I thought the Federal Reserve was not a government agency, and in any event, what justification does the Federal Reserve have to go through your emails?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
dogbreath, 11/20/2012 1:04:50 PM (No. 9025839)
Vote neither republican nor democrat. They are all swine. Go Libertarian and save our freedom.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mindyourbubble, 11/20/2012 1:16:14 PM (No. 9025862)
Where is the ACLU and other liberal conclaves on the proposed bill? Soooo, we will just go back to cyphered snail mail.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
belwhatter, 11/20/2012 1:34:45 PM (No. 9025896)
This makes me so angry - there just aren´t polite enough words for ths gross intrusion on privacy.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 11/20/2012 1:48:56 PM (No. 9025915)
These scoundrels read the email of anyone they want, anytime they want. Democrats don´t give a whit about the constitution, principles, or ethics.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
frenesi1, 11/20/2012 2:17:07 PM (No. 9025967)
Most Americans won´t hear about this until there is a Republican in the WH and it will be non stop about Republicans invading our privacy.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mickturn, 11/20/2012 2:31:02 PM (No. 9025998)
Go for it you morons, 99.99999999% of emails are drivel anyway! Oh, I forgot, it´s actually 101% due to inflation.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Axeman, 11/20/2012 2:59:16 PM (No. 9026048)
Email has never been private. People who want to be secure would not be using email. Or they will use email and send encrypted messages. Most people will never know this until it is too late.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 11/20/2012 3:03:57 PM (No. 9026060)
For eight years, I listened to leftist friends as they fumed over the attempts by President Bush to secure our country.
Then along came President Zero. And he is doing stuff much more nasty than President Bush ever did.
And when I ask my leftist friends what they think about President Zero´s attacks on civil liberties, they just smile.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 11/20/2012 4:27:04 PM (No. 9026198)
@#10: You`re assuming there will be another republican in the WH....
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
nonsense, 11/20/2012 6:42:38 PM (No. 9026427)
...and all those young childish voters (18-29) love Obama and socialism. Just a wild guess, but I bet they will not like the government reading their emails.
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