Senate fails to advance FBI spying bill after Orlando shooting

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

A Republican-backed proposal in the Senate to expand the FBI's secretive surveillance powers after the mass shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub last week fell two votes short on Wednesday of the 60 needed to advance.

The measure was a Republican response to the massacre after a push for gun-control measures sponsored by both major U.S. parties failed earlier this week.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell switched his vote to 'no' at the end of the unusually long hour vote to allow him the opportunity to bring it up for consideration again.

The legislation would broaden the type of telephone and internet records the Federal Bureau of Investigation could request from companies such as the Google unit of Alphabet Inc and Verizon Communications Inc without a warrant. Opponents said it threatened civil liberties and did little to improve national security.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-fbi-emails-idUSKCN0Z8160

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Technology | Wed Jun 22, 2016 12:28pm EDT
WASHINGTON | BY DUSTIN VOLZ

EDIT: Article updated at link.

Original title: Senate votes down proposal to expand FBI surveillance powers

[Dustlawyer]

1. We have too much already!!!

[merrily]

2. BINGO. We already have too much and it's not protecting us anyway.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1104&pid=1333

[drray23]

3. good.

the FBI already had what they needed. They had this guy under scrutiny having interviewed him twice. The question is not whether or not they need more spying powers, its really about if they missed anything in the analysis of the stuff they had on him.

A member of his mosque alerted the FBI on mateen back in 2014. This triggered an interview but did not go any further. You would think that after two such occurrences, they would have kept track of this guy more closely.

[bluestateguy]

5. Too busy wasting time and personnel on Hillary's e-mails

nt

[lark]

4. Why is their answer to always take away our privacy and civil rights?

Repugs = wrong way, every time. They don't really care about people killing other people, they just want an excuse to bring in bigger and more expensive toys to increase the wealth of our war machine perpetrators.