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The US Senate voted down an amendment to the USA Patriot Act on Wednesday that would create a tougher standard for government investigators to collect the web search and browsing histories of people in the states. The bipartisan amendment, proposed by Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, a Democrat, and Sen. Steve Daines of Montana, a Republican, would've required the Department of Justice to show probable cause when requesting approval from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to collect the data for counterterrorism or counterintelligence investigations.
Later Wednesday, the Senate voted to approve a separate bipartisan amendment that would expand a program that reviews some FISA Court requests and provides advice to judges on privacy and civil liberties concerns.
Before the vote on the browsing history issue, Daines told the Senate the bill was necessary to keep the government from intruding into the most sensitive information of internet users in the US. "If you want to see an American's search history, then you better go to a judge and get a warrant," he said.
The amendment required 60 votes to pass and failed with a final tally of 59 ayes and 37 nays. A separate amendment drafted by Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, a Republican, would expressly allow the collection of web search and browsing data under section 215 of the Patriot Act, which doesn't require that investigators show probable cause. The Wyden-Daines amendment, by contrast, would've given government the ability to request the data under a separate part of the law, Title I, which does require probable cause.
Senate rejects tougher standards for collection of search and browsing dat
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday May 14 2020, @12:59AM (17 children)
Yep, you guessed it, the honorable Bernard Sanders of Vermont.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday May 14 2020, @01:19AM (1 child)
Didn't know he was still alive
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday May 14 2020, @05:11AM
Braindead doesn't count, the heart has to stop before he gets a death certificate.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday May 14 2020, @02:52AM (14 children)
So a Republican introduces legislation allowing your spies to spy on everyone with no oversight, and that's Bernies' fault?
Weird.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2020, @04:03AM (10 children)
There are interesting names that voted against this amendment. There are plenty of names on both sides of this one. For the record, S. 3242 votes that weren't Yea:
NAYs ---37
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blackburn (R-TN)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Capito (R-WV)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cotton (R-AR)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Graham (R-SC)
Hassan (D-NH)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Johnson (R-WI)
Jones (D-AL)
Kaine (D-VA)
Lankford (R-OK)
Manchin (D-WV)
McConnell (R-KY)
Perdue (R-GA)
Portman (R-OH)
Roberts (R-KS)
Romney (R-UT)
Rubio (R-FL)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Toomey (R-PA)
Warner (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wicker (R-MS)
Young (R-IN)
Not Voting - 4
Alexander (R-TN)
Murray (D-WA)
Sanders (I-VT)
Sasse (R-NE)
(Score: 5, Interesting) by captain normal on Thursday May 14 2020, @05:07AM (1 child)
Honestly I've long said (if not here then quite a few other places) Feinstein is a wolf wearing wool. When it comes down to it, she always votes in favor of her husbands business.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2020, @06:06AM
She shit all over the marijuana laws they were trying to get passed, shit on the gays as much as she could and she's been dropping deuces on the rest of us in the decades since. Somebody needs to take out the trash, maybe on a certain anniversary...
(Score: 2) by Tokolosh on Thursday May 14 2020, @02:09PM
Who is loving the Deep State now?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Aegis on Thursday May 14 2020, @02:34PM (5 children)
So, 73% of the bend over and take it crowd were Republican.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday May 14 2020, @05:58PM (4 children)
It could be Republicans hungry for revenge, who seek to abuse those laws against the Dems as a big "fuck you" to the past 4 years.
And of course that is definitely wrong, but I think it would be temporarily okay to start taking those fuckers down. The past 4 years proved that they certainly deserve it.
(Score: 3, Touché) by helel on Thursday May 14 2020, @09:41PM (2 children)
Revenge for what, four years of republican rule?
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday May 14 2020, @10:04PM (1 child)
For stonewalling the living fuck out of Trump's popular agenda with sham legal proceedings.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by helel on Thursday May 14 2020, @11:34PM
Could you give some examples? All the major filibusters, refusals to pass or even schedule standard legislation like the budget or judicial appointments, and general stonewalling I recall in recent years was done by republicans. Heck, even the repeal of the Affordable Care Act was stonewalled by Mitch McConnell.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Friday May 15 2020, @12:56AM
That is a seriously stupid way to run a country, if it's true.
But of course, it's not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2020, @08:15PM
scum.
(Score: 0, Troll) by fustakrakich on Thursday May 14 2020, @03:03PM (2 children)
Yeah, it is when he doesn't show up to stop it. He may as well have introduced it himself. These people being what they are, it was probably prearranged. The bickering amongst them is pure theatrics for the tabloids.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Friday May 15 2020, @12:52AM (1 child)
As noted above, 2 Republicans also didn't vote, but somehow Bernie gets singled out.
OK then.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday May 15 2020, @02:07AM
Because we already know how worthless the republicans are. We expect more from the democrats, who are always yapping about civil rights, but never show up when needed.
So, I guess you're right. We shouldn't expect anything out of Sanders either.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..