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Feinstein: NSA Metadata Stays



From: grarpamp <[email protected]>

>  http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/01/20/1410221/senator-dianne-feinstein-nsa-metadata-program-here-to-stay


""The Hill reports, 'Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) predicted Sunday that lawmakers who favored shutting down the bulk collection of telephone metadata would not be successful in their efforts as Congress weighs potential reforms to the nation's 
controversial intelligence programs.  "I don't believe so," Feinstein 
said during an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press (video). "The president has very clearly said that he wants to keep the capability So I think we would agree with him. I know a dominant 
majority of the â?? everybody, virtually, except two or three, on the 
Senate Intelligence Committee would agree with that." ... "A lot of the 
privacy people, perhaps, don't understand that we still occupy the role 
of the Great Satan. New bombs are being devised. New terrorists are 
emerging, new groups, actually, a new level of viciousness," Feinstein 
said. "We need to be prepared. I think we need to do it in a way that 
respects people's privacy rights."'""

In other words, "We need to violate people's privacy rights in a way that respects people's privacy rights."

         Jim Bell
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