
“The reform proposals are all pretty simple: Don’t spy on Americans (which the government claims it’s not doing anyway), tell Americans how much the government has spied on them in the past, and explain to the American people exactly how much authority the government believes it has to spy on its own citizens without a warrant. For a Congress bubbling over with Republican anti-big-government crusaders and Democrats who slammed Bush for shredding the Constitution, that ought to be an easy sell, right?”
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/warrantless-wiretapping-fisa-authorization-reform-bill
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