A Controversial US Surveillance Program May Get Slipped Into a ‘Must-Pass’ Defense Bill
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Congressional leaders are discussing ways to reauthorize Section 702 surveillance, including by attaching it to the National Defense Authorization Act, Capitol Hill sources tell WIRED.

A Controversial US Surveillance Program May Get Slipped Into a ‘Must-Pass’ Defense Bill.::Congressional leaders are discussing ways to reauthorize Section 702 surveillance, including by attaching it to the National Defense Authorization Act, Capitol Hill sources tell WIRED.

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    224·
    10 months ago

    I was with you until the last sentence. Things like that are usually supported by many or even most Democrats too. The Democratic Party isn’t a civil libertarian party, at all.

    I have not researched these specific cases, so may be wrong about them.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      113·
      10 months ago

      Things like that are usually supported by many or even most Democrats too

      Good thing the world isn’t a binary where rightful criticism of one “team” automatically confers praise on another.

      I’m painfully aware that the lesser evil is still evil and that only a few specific types of people are well-represented in Congress, most of them not very good people.