Posted by Kromey at 2:45pm Jun 2 '15Well, those provisions that sunset, at least; the Senate failed to push it through, which means that the programs of illegal spying on Americans now don't even have that much behind them.
There's still the so-called "Freedom Act" sitting in the Senate, which its supporters -- including Obama, despite his lip-service to transparency -- claim would reign in said illegal spying programs but in reality would do little more than sprinkle a little feel-good theater on them while keeping them running unchanged. If we can kill that one, too, or at the least force the Senate to allow amendments to the bill that would lead to it actually reforming government surveillance, then we've made some real serious headway against the surveillance state.
It's dead!! - Kromey