Senate moves to consider bill to limit NSA surveillance

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Source: LA Times

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) moved Wednesday to take up legislation that would curtail some of the bulk collection of Americans’ telephone data.

Reid filed notice that he would hold a procedural vote, probably next week, on a bill sponsored by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) to put some limits on which records of domestic phone calls can be collected and stored by the FBI and the National Security Agency.

The move is good news for advocates of new restrictions on law enforcement in the wake of disclosures by NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Reid could have taken up a weaker version of the legislation passed by the House in May.

But it remains to be seen whether there will be enough time in the lame-duck Senate session to handle numerous amendments expected to be offered by other senators.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nsa-leahy-bulk-collection-20141112-story.html

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1. is it enough?

Is it a decent start?

Or a fig leaf?

Will someone (Udall) read the Intelligence Report into the Congressional Record now?

[silvershadow]

2. (Udall) seriously needs to do this. Might be his most important achievement while in office.

I hope he does the right thing. As to the rest, I've already read elsewhere that it is very watered down.

[Eridenus]

6. And hopefully after the Intelligence Report is read

and half of the Congress (99% Republicans) are indicted and forced to resign.

Udall should read it into Congressional Report before his terms end.

Udall has stated that he won't go away quietly regarding NSA, and he intends to fulfill that statement.

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4. where is the DU response to this?

There should be an uproar on this issue!!!

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3. Another moment of "Too little, too late"

You had your chance, Harry. Time to pack up those ping-pong balls you call testicles and find someone else to represent the Democrats.

[Deny and Shred]

5. Yup. A toothless feel-good headline

Where was this when Clapper was caught lying to Congress? When undenied damning revelations came to light over the past couple years and the dems had an opportunity to do something about it?

These 'prinicpled' declarations with no chance of passing coming on the heels of the feckless midterms begs the question: Was losing control of the Senate the plan all along?