Wisdom Quarterly; Canadian Broadcast Corporation (cbc.ca)
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| With this high-stakes showdown vote, White House press secretary Jay Carney issued an unusual, nighttime statement by Obama saying the measure would "hastily dismantle one of our intelligence community's counterterrorism tools" (Patrick Semansky/AP). |
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| I want the NSA to spy on Americans. Me, too. |
[Welcome to 1984; Big Brother is watching.] The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to continue the
collection of hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records in the
fight against terrorism.
The chamber rejected a measure to end the program's authority, but it
was unlikely to settle the debate over privacy rights and government
efforts to thwart terrorism. The vote was 217-205 on Wednesday.
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The
vote marked the first chance for lawmakers to take a stand on the
secret surveillance program since former NSA systems analyst Edward
Snowden leaked classified documents last month that spelled out the
monumental scope of the government's activities.
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Republican Representative Justin Amash had challenged the program as
an indiscriminate collection of phone records, saying his effort was to
defend the U.S. Constitution and "defend the privacy of every American."
The issue created unusual political coalitions in Washington, with
the Obama administration, national security leaders in Congress and the
Republican establishment facing off against libertarian-leaning
conservatives and some liberal Democrats. More
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