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The letter's text:
Dear Mr. President:
Thank you for your leadership in honoring our responsibility to protect and defend the American people. As you know, our challenge as elected officials is to preserve Americans liberties while protecting our national security.
This week, the House of Representatives considered an amendment offered by Representatives Amash and Conyers to H.R. 2397, the Fiscal Year 2014 Defense Appropriations bill. The Amash-Conyers amendment would have limited NSA's ability to collect bulk telecommunications records pursuant to Section 215 of the Patriot Act as codified in Section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Although the amendment was defeated 205-217, it is clear that concerns remain about the continued implementation of the program in its current form.
Although some of us voted for and others against the amendment, we all agree that there are lingering questions and concerns about the current 215 collection program. These include:
- Whether the bulk metadata telecommunications collection program sufficiently protects the privacy and civil liberties of Americans.
- Whether the program could be tailored more narrowly to better ensure the protection of privacy and civil liberties.
- Whether the law is being implemented in a manner consistent with Congressional intent.
- How we can ensure greater transparency regarding FISA court operations, decision making, and issuance of orders.
- Whether changes to the current FISA Court structure are needed.
We look forward to working with you and Administration officials to address the concerns outlined above and to explore options which will preserve Americans' privacy and civil liberties while protecting our national security.
Thank you for your leadership and your attention to these concerns."
http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/washington/2013/07/pelosi-153-house-democrats-tell-obama-of-lingering-questions-and-concerns-about-nsa-programs.html
http://www.democraticleader.gov/Pelosi_Letter_to_Obama_on_NSA
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)How dare they question Obama.
They must be closet republicans and racist, right?
ProSense
(116,464 posts)"Randian conspiracy?"
...a thread about Rand Paul: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023345646
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)75% of the House doesn't know what a database is!
think
(11,641 posts)It's a start...
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)Now let's see if this guy is as into "repealing" as he claims.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)see congress passing a law that gives our enemies private access to all our communication systems?
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)railsback
(1,881 posts)Snowden is still a man without a country, holed up in a Moscow airport, and Greenwald is still trying to sell a book.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)i'm sure she got an earful over the weekend.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)Us average Joes don't like this spying on Americans crap.
kentuck
(111,103 posts)will not do so in the next vote. That's about 75% of the entire Democratic caucus. If the same number of Repubs vote the next time, the bill to restrain the NSA will pass the House of Representatives.
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)she told me impeachment is off the table but im sure the letter will look good in re-election campaigns ads.
why is she writing to potus about this anyway oh that's right , campaign ads, give em hell nancy.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)she was planning on writing this letter anyway.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)I think he should come back and face the music.
Think of the parades!!!
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)So, the President is sending Steven Seagal over.
"I'm just a cook."
No, you're not!!!
Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)You know, Robert Lady, the CIA station chief who led the effort to kidnap, hold in black prison sites, and torture an innocent man? That Robert Lady.