Restore the Fourth
It is sometimes very hard for members of Congress to choose to do the right thing. In the context of government surveillance, the broad and easy way is to let the intelligence agencies have their way. After all, nothing about you is beyond their reach, and they’re happy to accuse defenders of our privacy of […]
March 15 marks three years since, amid the shrill protests of the intelligence community, Congress allowed key sections of the mass-surveillance-enabling PATRIOT Act to lapse. This week, we’re again hearing shrill cries of the intelligence community and their lackeys on the Hill, declaring that if Congress allows mass-surveillance-enabling Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act […]