But... But... But... National security...

"Will lawmakers protect the privacy of its citizens"

No. And we have known since Snowden.

Doesn't too much if the os level ID laws go through

Are they actually split, or performatively split like they normally are right before every single one of them votes to expand surveillance?

Perhaps lawmakers should make laws the people want to follow, and not draconian laws that will lead to dystopia.

Laws? How quaint.

We need to start arresting these traitors for treason

Let's see how Dems somehow can't manage this...

Good! maybe the DNC will put up the fight this time that they should have put up last time.

The 1978 FISA law was fine until it was expanded in 2008 to include sweeping up any domestic communications between Americans even remotely adjacent to a foreign target. And all of that was made searchable, discoverable and was used for fishing expeditions despite assurances that it would only be studied except for relevance to foreign targets. Dems controlled both houses of congress in 2008 and George Bush was president. The senate vote was 69-28 with 20 dems defecting to Bush's side+ Joe Lieberman, of course. It was Feinstein and a bunch of dems who called themselves "centrists".

Even with both houses of congress, about 40% of the Dems just couldnt find it in them to protect the privacy of the citizens and chose republican-lite. Its even worse now. Centrists are a key part of all of our problems. They need to be removed and their philosophies tossed in the dustbin of history for good.

https://archive.ph/yuRSi

What is the point of mass surveillance if a known russian asset can make president and proceed to completely fuck up government from the inside? It's like building a wall that fucks over everyone, only to watch an actual enemy jump over it with a ladder.

Bit late to start protecting Americans from warrantless surveillance now, don't you think

The uniparty has never been more obvious than in the past few years. The benefactors of both parties, the wealthy who control the electoral system and the military, they need a paramilitary police state to quell the inevitable uprisings that will occur when a critical mass of citizens realize that American economic primacy and constitutional order are over.

Didn't stop heritage foundation

It's worthless.

Should be stopped. Permanently. We need a constitutional amendment.

Lawmakers are split between the interests of their constituents and the interests of the truckloads of money being dumped on them*

If you are not on a government watch list by now you should be ashamed of yourself.

That's something at least - I'd orginally misunderstood the title as Trump extending the surveillance to citizens as well

I'm aware they all do this through 5 eyes 'trading' but at least it's not open-slather...

Laws? How quaint.