Senators push bill to declassify secret FISA surveillance rulings

Senators push bill to declassify secret FISA surveillance rulings

“Americans deserve to know how much information about their private communications the government believes it’s allowed to take under the law,” said Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), who is spearheading the effort with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
The legislation has a powerful backer in Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), and Sens. Dean Heller (R-Nev.), Mark Begich (D-Alaska), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) have also signed on as co-sponsors.

Time to call your senator again.

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Obviously, a program called “BOUNDLESS Informant” is entirely limited and modest in scope. Obviously. — David Sirota (@davidsirota) June 10, 2013

James Clapper Clarifies Remarks Over NSA Snooping

James Clapper Clarifies Remarks Over NSA Snooping

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Thursday that he stood by what he told Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in March when he said that the National Security Agency does not “wittingly” collect data on millions of Americans.

Do you think the House GOP could take a break from votes on Acorn, ObamaCare and Benghazi to investigate this instead? How about a discussion on repealing the Patriot act?

Colbert Mocks Tea Partiers For Whining About Tax-Exempt Status They Didn’t Have to Ask For

Colbert Mocks Tea Partiers For Whining About Tax-Exempt Status They Didn’t Have to Ask For

“How is that possible, that I didn’t apply?” Colbert asked. “Am I breaking the law?” Potter took that opportunity to remind the Colbert Report host that he was not legally obligated to apply for tax-exempt status in the first place.

Amazing. The IRS blocked them from something that they were not obligated to do in the first place.