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It's now explicitly authorized by law instead of hiding in the FISA authorization. Our elected representatives wanted it.
by wbl 10y ago
It's now explicitly authorized by law instead of hiding in the FISA authorization. Our elected representatives wanted it.
- linkregister 10y agoFISA didn't have anything to do with the phone records program. I agree that the majority of Congress wanted it.
- bediger4000 10y ago> Our elected representatives wanted it. Indisputable. But did a majority of the citizens want it? Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, whereas "elected representatives" right now represent some minority due to Republican state-level gerrymandering in a lot of states, and Electoral College overrepresenting sparsely-populated western states.