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Anti-communist watchdog: NSA should spy on ‘progressive’ lawmakers like Bernie Sanders
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/09/anti-communist-watchdog-nsa-should-spy-on-progressive-lawmakers-like-bernie-sanders/Cliff Kincaid
Anti-communist watchdog: NSA should spy on progressive lawmakers like Bernie Sanders
By Travis Gettys
Thursday, January 9, 2014 13:39 EST
After Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) demanded to know whether the NSA was spying on U.S. Congress members, one self-styled media watchdog suggests that maybe they should.
Not one article has dared to ask whether Sanders and other progressive members of Congress should be under surveillance because of their contacts with foreign intelligence agencies, wrote Cliff Kincaid, director of the Accuracy In Media Center for Investigative Journalism.
In a sense, the story is a bunch of hype, Kincaid wrote. Like other Americans, certain data about members of Congress is being collected by the NSA, but not searched unless there is evidence of foreign and terrorist connections. Sanders wants the public to think this is sinister activity.
Kincaid complained that no federal elected officials, including the president and lawmakers, are required to go through security background checks before being allowed to serve, which he suggests could put national security at risk.
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Anti-communist watchdog: NSA should spy on ‘progressive’ lawmakers like Bernie Sanders (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Jan 2014
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Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)1. I think that condition is called
"stuck in the '70's".
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)2. Security background checks? Sounds reasonable.
Let's add regular drug tests during the legislative period and background checks for personal and financial conflicts of interest (aka "bribery" .
stillwaiting
(3,795 posts)3. I have no doubt they already are spying on progressive members.
You better be clean, squeaky clean, if you are going to fight for average American interests.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)4. AIM also said nothing happened in El Mozote