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posted by martyb on Sunday December 04 2016, @03:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the lets-start-the-monitoring-with-all-those-in-power dept.

The FBI, National Security Agency and CIA are likely to gain expanded surveillance powers under President-elect Donald Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress, a prospect that has privacy advocates and some lawmakers trying to mobilize opposition.

Trump's first two choices to head law enforcement and intelligence agencies -- Republican Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general and Republican Representative Mike Pompeo for director of the Central Intelligence Agency -- are leading advocates for domestic government spying at levels not seen since the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Police state surveillance is only bad when the other party does it.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @03:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @03:30PM (#436893)

    Believe what you want, no problem here. But please realize a not insignificant portion of Christians do go in for the doomsday / kill the heretics type stuff. If you can't see how religious institutions manipulate people into doing evil (historically, and not all of them) then you need to do some reading!!!

    With the anti-muslim rhetoric of the GOP backed by religious leaders I can totally imagine a slow slide into horror. Its an uncomfortable fact I'm sure that this wouldn't be so easy with a bunch of atheists, they won't sit down and listen to authority figures tell them what to think every week. This isn't meant as a personal dig, lots of religious centers are great.