When Is Congress Going to Rein in #FBI Surveillance—Including Backdoor Searches of Americans? https://www.vice.com/read/when-is-congress-going-to-rein-in-fbi-surveillance-1104 … via @emptywheel @vice
@60slib1 Actually, it's not "for sure." Single biggest impediment to fixing surveillance on appropriations is Barb Mikulski @PatrickCToomey
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@emptywheel@60slib1@PatrickCToomey in McConnell Senate she is irrelevant. CIA Report will never see light of day. NSA w/b unchecked -
@60slib1 Which takes away single biggest impediment to reform via appropriations. Mikulski being irrelevant is GOOD re NSA@PatrickCToomey -
@emptywheel@60slib1@PatrickCToomey point taken. Suspect nothing happens until torture report is leaked uncensored, reckoning forced -
@60slib1 Torture is a totally different thing than surveillance, bc there are far more GOP allies on latter. CIA =/= NSA.@PatrickCToomey -
@emptywheel@PatrickCToomey 2 sides of same unconstitutional coin -
@60slib1 Sure. But the politics are very different.@PatrickCToomey -
@emptywheel@PatrickCToomey I'm less concerned about politics than policy. Both CIA and NSA are acting extraconstitutionally .
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