Senate approves USA Freedom Act

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: USA Today

The Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill Tuesday to end the National Security Agency's controversial bulk collection of the phone data of millions of Americans who have no ties to terrorism.

Senators voted 67-32 to approve the USA Freedom Act, which was passed by the House last month. The bill now goes to President Obama, who has promised to sign it.

Once the bill is signed into law, three key sections of the Patriot Act anti-terrorism law that expired at midnight Sunday will be restored and extended through 2019.

However, Section 215 of that law will be changed to stop the NSA from continuing its mass phone data collection program. Instead, phone companies will retain the data and the NSA can obtain information about targeted individuals with permission from a federal court.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/06/02/patriot-act-usa-freedom-act-senate-vote/28345747/

[Zight]

1. USA now can only get metadata from suspects

I can live with this law.

[cstanleytech]

3. And what limits are there to the gathering of the meta data?

For example lets say they are tracking George, now George calls Harry does this mean they can gather the meta data from Harry to and what happens if Harry calls Tom? Does it keep extending as they call more people and so on and so on?

[Zight]

7. Two hops nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Looks like something of an improvement over the Patriot Act

and I like it that Mitch "Turtle Boy" McConnell didn't get the amendments he wanted. Still, I really hate some of the names they give these acts. "USA Freedom"? Freedom, my fat white ass. Congress has absolutely no sense of irony.

[AngryDem001]

4. Congress has the collective intelligence of a parsnip.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Parsnips wouldn't be as dangerous.

[rosesaylavee]

14. You flatter them.

[jalan48]

6. Anything called the "USA Freedom Act" has to suck.

[C Moon]

12. +1

[rpannier]

19. It's all about freedom doncha know

The freedom of the government to spy upon you when they want

[Mnpaul]

22. Just look at the summary

A bill to reform the authorities of the Federal Government to require the production of certain business records, conduct electronic surveillance, use pen registers and trap and trace devices, and use other forms of information gathering for foreign intelligence, counterterrorism, and criminal purposes, and for other purposes.

I'm wondering what those "other purposes" would be.

[corkhead]

8. Of course it passed. How can you be against Freedom unless ur a secret muslin

[Cryptoad]

11. or a covert muslin like r paul?

[corkhead]

16. Nooooooooooo! Say it isn't so!!!!11!!111!

[sarisataka]

13. Do you have something to hide

Comrade?

[Fred Sanders]

9. The American Domestic Surveillance and Citizen Tracking Act.......is the real name.

[Cryptoad]

10. how funny,,,,

Yall really trust big corps more than the gubermint,,,,,lmao

[underpants]

15. They never met a data they didn't like

[scarletwoman]

17. Link to the Senate vote roll call:

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00201#position

[rpannier]

20. Gee... Lindsay didn't vote

I wonder if it's because he was afraid to go on the record or meeting with his con$tituents and just didn't have time to do his job

[Mnpaul]

21. Wow only one Democrat voted against it

Tammy Baldwin

and Bernie

[OneCrazyDiamond]

23. Bernie did say it didn't go far enough,

and would vote against it.

[msongs]

18. oppression is freedom. thanks dems repubs and obama nt