Senate blocks NSA phone record collecting bill
WASHINGTON ��� The Senate on Tuesday blocked a bill to end bulk collection of American phone records by the National Security Agency, dealing a blow to President Barack Obamas primary proposal to rein in domestic surveillance. The 58-42 vote. The.
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The Kentucky senator helped block NSA reform. Now civil liberties. Paul spokesman Brian Darling said there was ���no realistic scenario where an acceptable bill that included meaningful and necessary reforms to the NSA would have passed the the Senate, then passed the House, in the very limited time we have remaining in this Congress.���. Paul was all set for a starring role in the Senate debate on the bill by Leahy to rein in the bulk collection of phone records.
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NSA-Spying A federal appeals court in New York on Thursday ruled that the once-secret National Security Agency program that is systematically collecting Americans phone records in bulk is illegal. The decision comes as a fight in. A similar bill died in the Senate in November after national-security hawks said it would be a gift to terrorists and Mr. McConnell urged Republicans to block an up-or-down vote on it with a filibuster. Mr. McConnell has urged a ���clean��.
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(Washington Post, New York Times, BuzzFeed, Bloomberg, ABC). Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced legislation to block the NSA from collecting Americans phone records, just over a month before parts of the PATRIOT Act expire.
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A bill to end the National Security Agencys bulk collection of telephone records failed on a procedural vote in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday after senior Republicans said it would benefit enemies of the United States, including��.
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���The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice,��� Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, wrote for Time magazine, vowing to block even a short-term extension of the Patriot Act, under which phone data has.
Senate Is Sharply Split Over Extension of NSA Phone Data Collection
WASHINGTON ��� With the federal governments bulk collection of phone records set to expire in June, senators remained deeply divided on Thursday over whether to extend the program temporarily or accept significant changes that the House .
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The New York Times reports: Democrats and a handful of Republicans who supported the measure fell two votes short of the 60 votes they needed to take up the legislation, which sponsors named the U.S.A. Freedom Act.. While a Republican-controlled Senate is less likely to go along with the kinds of changes that were in the bill, which would have ended the N.S.A.s ability to collect bulk phone call data, the debate could further expose rifts between the partys��.
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. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell leading a rearguard action to stop the changes, the bills aimed at preventing the governments mass collection of phone and Internet records would usher in a new era of privacy, according to The New York Times.
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Instead of the bulk collection of domestic phone records, including the date, time and duration of phone calls, the House bill required the NSA to obtain the records from private phone companies after getting a court order from a secret. The NSA bulk telephone collection program was authorized under the USA Patriot Act, which was passed in the days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S. A federal appeals court in New York earlier this month ruled��.
Senate Blocks Bill on NSA Collection of Phone Records
WASHINGTON ��� After vigorous debate and intense last-minute pressure by Republican leaders, the Senate on Saturday rejected legislation that would end the federal governments bulk collection of phone records. With the death of that measure ��� passed .
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There may not be heavy security in place the next time ISIS attacks.. Under the metadata program, the NSA collects large numbers of phone records ��� not the contents of phone calls ��� and uses them to make connections between terror suspects.
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. Edward Snowden. The NSA would be prohibited from the sweeping collection of the cell phone metadata of American citizens and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) would also have greater transparency.. The New York Times characterized the bills failure to move forward as a ���Republican Block��� but at least one Republican senator, Rand Paul, didnt vote to move the bill forward because it ���didnt go far enough.��� Paul also said he voted against��.
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The legislation would end the NSAs bulk collection of Americans communications records, which was largely thought to have been authorized under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. The bill also aims to increase transparency and accountability in .
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NEW YORK, May 7 (Reuters) - A U.S. spying program that systematically collects millions of Americans phone records is illegal, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday, putting pressure on Congress to quickly decide whether to. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said at a Senate budget hearing on Thursday that NSA data collection was a vital tool in our national security arsenal, and that she was unaware of privacy violations under its existing program.
Senate kills NSA surveillance reform bill - Washington.
Senate lawmakers on Tuesday voted to block a bill that aimed to rein in federal surveillance of electronic communications, all but killing prospects for the legislation to become law this year. The Senate voted 58-42 against moving forward on the USA Freedom Act, failing to garner the requisite votes despite an unusual coalition of Democrats and Republicans eager to end the governments bulk collection and retention of the publics phone records. ���Obviously Im��.
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By KEN DILANIAN WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Senate on Tuesday blocked a bill to end bulk collection of American phone records by the National Security Agency, dealing a blow to President Barack Obamas primary proposal to rein. The New York Times. LONDON ��� When Ted Nelson published ���Computer Lib,��� a manifesto for putting computing power into the hands of the people, it was a radical proposition. In 1974, computers cost $5 million, were mostly funded��.
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The best chance at ending the bulk collection of phone record metadata by the National Security Agency from pretty much every American has died in the Senate.. The NSAs capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything. [.] There would be no. [new] Rand Paul was 100% correct to block this (7+ / 0-).. NY-GOV covers the New York governors race.
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���Over all, on economic issues, we pretty much walk in lock step,��� said Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, the third-ranking Senate Democrat. But for issues on which Mr. Obama lacks a consensus with congressional Democrats, ���he needs an amalgam,��� .
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Its time for the Senate to act. Last week, the House overwhelmingly passed the USA Freedom Act, a measure that would end the NSAs bulk collection of phone records and replace it with a system that would search phone data held by the phone companies.
NSA Phone Data Collection Could Go On, Even if a Law Expires
Senate Republicans on Tuesday night used a filibuster to block consideration of a bill to end and replace the N.S.A. phone records program. The debate about what may happen next has played out based on a widely held premise: that the legal basis for.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr want to reauthorize the bulk collection of phone records ��� the most controversial program revealed by Edward Snowdens leaks.. ���Time in this case is probably a.
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Paul, the junior Senator from Kentucky, is obviously upset about proposals to extend the ability of the NSA to collect the phone records of American citizens. Senators. More important, he could push back when the Senate can take up the U.S.A. Freedom Act, preventing lawmakers from heading home for the Memorial Day weekend,��� the New York Times Ashley Parker said in her day-after analysis.. Filibusters and similar tactics arent new in the world of politics.
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But the courts ruling calls into question whether that statute can still be used to issue new orders to phone companies requiring them to turn over their customers records.. Charlie Savage and Jonathan Weisman in The New York Times.. [Sen. Ted.
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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is filibustering the Patriot Act on Senate floor.. Its time to end the NSA spying! ��� Dr. Rand Paul. Exclusive video that answers the question: why a filibuster? https://t.co/4HxwQn0IEw. ��� Dr. Rand Paul (@RandPaul) May 20, 2015. Not all Republicans are thrilled to see Paul on the Senate floor. New York Rep.. ���The court said last week that it is illegal to collect all of your phone records, all of the time, without a warrant with your name on it.
FRINFORMSUM 1/23/2014: Watchdog Report Says NSA.
A report scheduled for release today by the independent federal Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board found that the National Security Agencys (NSA) bulk phone call collection records program is illegal and should be terminated.. the Center of Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University, said in a New York Times interview that ���[t]he most interesting part of this speech was not how the president weighed individual privacy against the N.S.A, but that��.
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But this time, reformers are growing more confident of also convincing the Senate to back the legislation after strong support in recent days from the White House, intelligence agency leaders and a US federal appeals court ��� even as major civil libertarian groups have decried the. Wyden stood by the pledge on Wednesday, telling reporters he would block any effort ���to just re-up the Patriot Act without reforms and the phone records collection program ��� just as it is���.
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Advocates for civil liberties arent interested in a short extension to give lawmakers time to work out a solution, and theyre also not particularly pleased about the reform bill the House passed earlier this week.. A bitter ideological divide in.
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But McConnell is facing fierce opposition in the Senate and the House from Tea Party-aligned Republicans and liberal Democrats demanding an end to the National Security Agencys use of the Patriot Act to collect phone records from millions of Americans.
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Whats especially significant about this ruling is that this is the first time a higher court in the regular judicial system has reviewed the NSAs bulk data collection program. Since 2006, such practices by the intelligence. The House appears ready to pass a bill next week that would end the governments bulk collection of phone records, but it has faced resistance from the Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader. A similar bill died in the Senate in��.
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On Sunday, even before the bills public release, the New York Times editorial page issued a ringing endorsement, commending it as ���a breakthrough in the struggle against the growth of government surveillance power... In Section 501, the Senate bill would, like the House bill, replace bulk collection with specific selection term requirements in four areas: (1) counterintelligence access to telephone toll and transactional records, 18 U.S.C. �� 2709(b); (2) access to��.