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The USA FREEDOM ACT And The Price We Pay for Security

December 17, 2014 By David Rushton 6 Comments

The US Senate voted on a bill that would heavily reform the NSA’s methods of data collecting and the protection of privacy in the United States.

The USA FREEDOM ACT was to “rein in the dragnet collection by the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government agencies, increase transparency of the Foreign intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), provide businesses the ability to release information regarding FISA requests, and to create an independent constitutional advocate, to argue cases before the FISC.” [1]

The Freedom Act didn’t pass through the Senate, by two votes. Two votes is all we needed to ease some of the power the NSA has had unchecked since at least 2001.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, National News Tagged With: 9/11, democracy, Edward Snowden, FISA, FISA court, freedom, intelligence, ISIS, Islamic State, James Sensenbrenner Jr., Mitch McConnell, National Security Agency, NSA, Patrick Leahy, Patriot Act of 2001, Saxby Chambliss, security, September 11, Susan Collins, telecommunications, The Guardian, USA PATRIOT ACT

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