Senate likely to pass FBI spying bill after Orlando shooting

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Technology | Wed Jun 22, 2016 7:04am EDT

Senate likely to pass FBI spying bill after Orlando shooting

WASHINGTON | BY DUSTIN VOLZ

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday is likely to pass a Republican-backed proposal to expand the Federal Bureau of Investigation's secretive surveillance powers after the mass shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub last week.

The spying bill is the Republican response to the massacre after a push for gun-control measures sponsored by both major U.S. parties failed earlier this week.

The legislation would broaden the type of telephone and internet records the FBI could request from companies like Alphabet Inc and Verizon without a warrant. The proposal met opposition from critics who said it threatened civil liberties and did little to improve national security.

The bill, which the Obama administration has sought for years, “will allow the FBI to collect the dots so they can connect the dots, and that’s been the biggest problem that they’ve had in identifying these homegrown, radicalized terrorists,’” Senator John Cornyn, the chamber’s No. 2 Republican, said Tuesday.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-fbi-emails-idUSKCN0Z8160

[merrily]

1. EPIC FAIL. He was on the watch list. He was interviewed. Government made the wrong call.

Same with the Tsarnaevs. And in both instances, government waved its own error away and we all let government get away with waving away its own deadly errors.

For that matter, government had tons of info on the 911 terrorists. And instead of taking responsibility, government gave us the ironically-named Patriot Act, Homeland Security, militarized state and local police, cameras on our streets, etc.

In any event, neither the Boston Marathon bombing nor Orlando nor even 911 gave government a reason to encroach further on the tiny remaining shreds of our Fourth Amendment rights.

[Sherman A1]

2. Charming

and this is their answer........