Congress can’t pass a bill raising taxes on the top 2%, but by God it can still get a bill through to permit spying on American citizens. By a vote of 73-23, the Senate adopted legislation, supported by intelligence agencies and President Obama, to collect electronic data inside the U.S. without obtaining a warrant. The House approved the bill last September on a 301-118 vote. The overall policy is authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.
Here’s what Senator Paul said: “The Fourth Amendment was written in a different time and a different age, but its necessity and its truth are timeless. Over the past few decades our right to privacy has been eroded. We have become lazy and haphazard in our vigilance. Digital records seem to get less protection than paper records.”
The Senate bill was opposed by 19 Democrats, 3 Republicans, and one independent. The New York Times buried the article about the bill on page 12 of Saturday’s paper.
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