Author of Patriot Act: FBI’s FISA Order is Abuse of Patriot Act

[damnedifIknow]

"Congressman Sensenbrenner: “As the author of the Patriot Act, I am extremely troubled by the FBI’s interpretation of this legislation. While I believe the Patriot Act appropriately balanced national security concerns and civil rights, I have always worried about potential abuses. The Bureau’s broad application for phone records was made under the so-called business records provision of the Act. I do not believe the broadly drafted FISA order is consistent with the requirements of the Patriot Act. Seizing phone records of millions of innocent people is excessive and un-American.”

http://sensenbrenner.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=337001

[NYC_SKP]

1. Process. I like it. This is how we progress. K/R (nt)

[JaneyVee]

2. This is like Ayn Rand being ashamed of a billionaire tax dodger who pee's on homeless people.

Of course any attempt to scale it back is fine by me.

[Half-Century Man]

3. How did you not see this coming?

Thats the equivalent of being surprised daily by an eastern dawn.

[damnedifIknow]

4. This guy created a monster

and now speaks against his own creation.

[LeftInTX]

5. I betcha $1 million, he didn't complain when Bush did this

[malaise]

6. Now he is worried?

Fuck him.