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Title: Rand Paul puts hold on Trump nominee over surveillance concerns
Source:
The Hill
URL Source: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/ ... nee-over-surveillance-concerns
Published: Dec 22, 2017
Author: John Bowden
Post Date: 2017-12-23 20:03:46 by Hondo68
Keywords: Section 702 surveillance, provides a backdoor, surveil American citizens
Views: 1896
Comments: 25
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is putting a hold on one of President Trump's picks to the Justice Department over concerns about the nominee's views on warrantless wiretaps and surveillance, The Daily Beast reported. Paul, who sits on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has temporarily blocked John Demers's nomination to be assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s National Security Division. The position is one of three in the Justice Department with the authority to issue Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants, which allow the government to conduct surveillance on non-American targets outside the United States, even when they communicate with Americans. So-called Section 702 surveillance, named after the part of FISA authorizing the spy program, has been controversial. Civil libertarians have pushed to reform the law, saying it provides a backdoor for authorities to surveil American citizens. Demers is currently assistant general counsel at Boeing and has spoken favorably about Section 702 surveillance. One former National Security Division official told the news service that Demers was “unobjectionable and not particularly partisan,” and stated that officials in the division were relieved to hear Trump had nominated the largely uncontroversial nominee to the post. Earlier this week, Paul threatened to filibuster any long-term extension of Section 702. Section 702 was set to expire at the end of the year but lawmakers passed a short-term extension in a spending bill. “I will actively oppose and filibuster any long term extension of warrantless searches of American citizens,” Paul tweeted on Wednesday. 
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
Warrant-less search & seizures? According to some on LF, "this is what makes America Great again!
According to the pro-surveillance state contingent here at LF, "if you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear".
According to the pro-surveillance state contingent here at LF, "if you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear". Always remember: “The only thing we have to fear is feat itself.”
#22. To: tater (#18)
I think you meant to suggest, "The only thing we have to fear is the feet of government trampling our rights, liberties and freedoms.”
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#10. To: buckeroo, Gatlin, GrandIsland, misterwhite (#1)
Warrant-less search & seizures? According to some on LF, "this is what makes America Great again!
#18. To: Deckard (#10)
Warrant-less search & seizures? According to some on LF, "this is what makes America Great again!
According to the fear-mongers, if you don’t make up shit and become a party to the spreading of frightening and exaggerated rumors about some impending danger, then you have failed your primary mission in this life which was to purposely and needlessly arousing public fear about an issue.
Replies to Comment # 18. “The only thing we have to fear is feat [sic] itself.”
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