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JDPriestly

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3. Yes. But the Patriot Act was passed under Bush, and Sensenbrenner

Reply to delrem (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 04:22 AM

Apr 2015

stated that the authors of the bill did not have the intention to allow the NSA to collect all the data as it has been doing.

So the Republicans should take the lead in clarifying that the Patriot Act should be interpreted so as to comply most definitely with the restrictions of the Fourth Amendment.

The Patriot Act was their baby. They are responsible for being sure that the agencies relying on it do so in compliance with the Constitution.

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And the Republicans claim to be such ardent supporters of the Constitution. JDPriestly Apr 2015 #1

This problem can't be laid entirely on the Republicans. delrem Apr 2015 #2

Yes. But the Patriot Act was passed under Bush, and Sensenbrenner JDPriestly Apr 2015 #3

No. The Democrats ought to have taken responsibility. delrem Apr 2015 #5

The Democrats should have fixed it. JDPriestly Apr 2015 #14

"They are responsible..." Volaris Apr 2015 #8

and Sensenbrenner...oh yah, another genius from the Great State of Wisconsin..... a kennedy Apr 2015 #11

'Defense of the country' SamKnause Apr 2015 #4

It still hurts me that my fellow Kentuckians re-elected this a-hole A Little Weird Apr 2015 #6

NSA has a friend in Mitch Octafish Apr 2015 #7

very likely the same thing they know about the rest of us...everything Volaris Apr 2015 #9

Frank Church warned us in 1975 about NSA powers, so they turned them on him. Octafish Apr 2015 #12

A villain straight out of central casting... AzDar Apr 2015 #10

Ah. A compromise. n/t Orsino Apr 2015 #13