THE HOUSE WAS debating a powerful National Security Agency spying program when Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., rose to side against privacy hawks.
The spring 2024 debate was over forcing the feds to get a warrant to search foreign communications for intelligence on Americans. Doing so would cost crucial time, Goldman said, citing his own tenure as a federal prosecutor.
“Based on that experience, I can say with confidence that requiring a warrant would render this program unusable and entirely worthless,” he said last year. “Even if it were possible, the time required to obtain a search warrant from a judge would frequently fail to meet the urgency posed by a terrorist or other national security threat.”
Goldman’s argument won the day.
With his election victory last November, Donald Trump would inherit the warrantless surveillance powers.
The April 2024 vote still stings for civil liberties advocates, who thought they could count on progressives as they sought to build a bipartisan coalition with libertarian-minded Republicans.
people need to stop counting on democrats to be against expanding government powers that curtail our freedoms.
people need to stop counting on democrats
to be against expanding government powers that curtail our freedoms.You could have stopped right there.
fair point
DNC is all for it(surveillance), they just dont want to be the seen voting for it.
Morons.
That is a really good article. I remember most of the main points, but I didn’t remember (or never knew) a lot of the political posturing that went into the votes. Thanks for posting.
Is it working?
