The Rude Pundit Nails the Surveillance Issue

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28. I guess that has to be true if

you won't elect people who will repeal The Patriot Act, or AT LEAST someone who will not vote to extend it, or sign that extension into law.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/27/patriot-act-extension-signed-obama-autopen_n_867851.html

Personally, I'd like the U.S. to elect some people with some god-damned integrity, myself.

The two senators I voted for on that extension:

Merkley, along with Wyden, is especially upset that a provision of the current law that allows law enforcement to collect a vast array of business records, emails, phone numbers, even DNA from anyone deemed "relevant" to an investigation. Merkley and Wyden both want the law to include a more detailed legal definition of "relevant" to lessen the chance that sensitive data is collected on innocent people.

And from the same article:

The White House is pressing Congress to act so there will be no interruption. Specifically, the provisions to be renewed would authorize the FBI to use roving wiretaps on surveillance targets; allow the government to access "any tangible items," such as library records, in the course of surveillance; and allow the surveillance of "lone wolf" targets who are not connected to an identified terrorist group.

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/05/post_30.html

So...who was pushing the extension of the Patriot Act through in a hurry? The White House? Who is that? Barack Obama.

"You can't unfuck the deflowered virgin?" Bad metaphor. This law was supposed to expire. Congress and the president can damned well let it, or repeal it.