{"id":10724,"date":"2013-07-29T02:11:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T09:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10724"},"modified":"2013-07-29T02:11:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T09:11:51","slug":"fisa-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/29\/fisa-obsolete\/","title":{"rendered":"FISA Obsolete"},"content":{"rendered":"

You have seen me voice my displeasure at The Obama Administration\u2019s use of the FISA court, with the caveat that he has to use all the tools at his disposal, because a terrorist attack of 9\/11 proportions would spell the end of the Democratic Party, if he failed to do so.  Only Republicans are gifted enough at BS to have allowed 9\/11, through their incompetence, at best, to blame Democrats for it, and to survive.  I am fortunate that my elected Senators and Representative, all of whom  I have supported, lead the struggle to bring FISA onto the 21st century.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"29wyden\"Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) says he is likely to support legislative proposals to overhaul the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and is once again raising concerns over how intelligence agencies are tracking the cellphones of law-abiding Americans.<\/p>\n

Wyden said in an interview airing Sunday that the secret surveillance court used by federal officials to seek further permission to track terrorism suspects \u201cis just anachronistic.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re using processes that simply don\u2019t fit the times,\u201d Wyden said. \u201cWhen the FISA Act was passed in the [1970s], nobody envisioned, for example, some of the astounding reach that the court has gone to with respect to the Patriot Act and its definition of relevance. The statute talks about relevance, in nowhere does it even suggest that you can collect the phone records of millions and millions of law-abiding Americans.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wyden spoke on Sunday\u2019s episode of C-SPAN\u2019s \u201cNewsmakers<\/a>,\u201d which included questioning by a Washington Post reporter. He is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and a leading critic of how the NSA has been collecting telephone and Internet records of U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n

The senator said he is likely to support legislative proposals to overhaul the secretive court, because \u201cit\u2019s the most one-sided legal process in the United States. I don\u2019t know of any other legal system or court that really doesn\u2019t highlight anything except one point of view.\u201d<\/strong> He said later that lawmakers should seek to \u201cdiversify some of the thinking on the court<\/strong>.\u201d\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I couldn’t find the actual clip, because it was \u2018temporarily unavailable\u2019 but here’s one from Widen on the subject that is only three says old.<\/font><\/p>\n