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If there's anyone to go after, it's the ranking members of the Special Committee on Intelligence, who wrote FISA and greenlighted this policy. Sadly, the rankin
by scythe 13y ago
If there's anyone to go after, it's the ranking members of the Special Committee on Intelligence, who wrote FISA and greenlighted this policy. Sadly, the ranking members are the near-80 Dianne Feinstein and lame-duck Saxby Chambliss; their successors are probably Jay Rockefeller and Susan Collins.
While I don't think single-issue voting is a good political strategy, in this particular case it seems prudent to consider that the reprehensibility of the whole affair and the complicity of those few most able to stop it calls into question their moral fiber. We can't -- and shouldn't -- hope to kick every pro-surveillance Congressman out of office, but when someone in a position of influence helps betray the country to this degree we should take notice.
- yuhong 13y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5837367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5837367
- timberlane 13y agoWe can't -- and shouldn't -- hope to kick every pro-surveillance Congressman out of office I strongly disagree. We are blessed with the right to vote. It's important to use it on things that actually matter.
- kabdib 13y agoDear Outraged California: Please stop re-electing Feinstein, for starters. She's bad for you.