WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has sent legislation to the president reviving and remaking a disputed post-9/11 surveillance program two days after letting it temporarily expire.
The vote in the Senate Tuesday was 67-32. The House already has passed the bill, and President Barack Obama plans to sign it quickly.
The legislation will phase out, over six months, the once-secret National Security Agency bulk phone records collection program made public two years ago by agency contractor Edward Snowden.
It will be replaced by a program that keeps the records with phone companies but allows the government to search them with a warrant.
Senate Republican leaders opposed the House bill but were forced to accept it unchanged after senators rejected last-ditch attempts to amend it.
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The Turtle took a good ole fashion beating on this. I’d love to see a total on the votes he lost starting back the week before last.
It will be interesting to see how Huckafukk ties this to marriage equality.
Your wrong. This is clearly a transgender issue!
Oh great, now the data will be handled by corporations and in hackable form instead of within the NSA.
Brilliant.
/sarcasm
well, it ALREADY is handled by corporations, isn’t it?