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> “Four years after he co-wrote a bill meant to make companies like Apple provide confidential data about customers under investigation, Senate Intelligence Com
by azinman2 7y ago
> “Four years after he co-wrote a bill meant to make companies like Apple provide confidential data about customers under investigation, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) has become the subject of an investigation.”
Oh, the delicious irony!
- vulcan01 7y agoIs this the key? Will lawmakers start realising that anti-privacy laws will eventually be used against them? Will they start supporting privacy laws? One can only hope...
- _bxg1 7y agoProbably they'll start carving out bespoke protections for themselves
- TAForObvReasons 7y agoThis whole situation started from bespoke protections wherein Congress members weren't subject to insider trading rules.
- ViViDboarder 7y agoYes. Like with the Patriot act. They are attempting now to add additional oversight if used to investigate an elected official or candidate.
- billme 7y ago“(G) if the target of the electronic surveillance is an elected Federal official or a candidate in a Federal election, that the Attorney General has approved in writing of the investigation;“ Exactly.
- DenisM 7y agoWhich exceptions for US senators were written into the patriot act?
- ta17711771 7y ago> attempting now
- votepaunchy 7y agoLike with the Gates Procedures.
- chippy 7y agonope. They passed an amendment exempting Senators from the FBI's no-warrant-needed web browsing snooping this week. One law for the law-makers and one law for everyone else.