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Udall Secures Enactment Of 12 Indian Affairs Bills U.S. SENATE News: WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, hailed final passage of 12 Indian Affairs-related bills. The 12 bills will now go to the president to be signed into law. Udall also cheered Senate passage of seven additional Indian Affairs provisions, which must be passed by the House of Representatives.  Udall led or cosponsored seven of the 12 Indian Affairs-related...

>> this is a powerful letter. it is a deeply moving letter. a personal letter, and also an important historical letter. >> do you think it impugns the character? >> the facts may hurt, were not in the united states senate to ignore facts. >> warren ignored his warnings, but the incident has turned into a democratic party rallying cry after picking up speed on social medi with hashtags in support and t-shirts made. guessing people now read this letter. this morning, senators udall, brown, and san...

Plans to have hearings to investigate. >> the nsa has become a menace. the constitutional rights of americans are under a broad assault here. fourth amendment right to be free of search and says sure and freedom of speech are under attack. >> 2,27 incident of privacy violation occurred in one year from 2011 to 2012 under the administration. the audit found nsa personnel were told to water down report to the justice department and congress. the chairman of the house and intel committee continued ...

Cannot communicate. and so i think both jorn ahn an are right in that there is a way that washington tends to react to terror which is whats known and described as a one-way ratchet that kind of prohibits a more complicated discussion of what actually is happening here and you know what does this say about the way in which al qaeda is evolving. >> remember that senators udall and -- so senators that are actually on the intelligence committee have said there are things that -- theres information ...

But we have seen -- i mean, steve bennan writing at the blog for the show this morning was talking about how calls for resignation, calls for the heads of administration officials are basically as regular as having a cup of coffee when you wake up in the morning. like theyll call for the resignation of anybody for anything because they hope it will hurt the president. >> right. >> but with clapper, even with him not just lying to congress but admitting that he lied to congress after having previ...

U.s. person must be promptly destroyed if it is neither relevant to the authorized purpose nor evidence of a crime." shortly after the nsa put up that fact sheet on their website, senators ron wyden and mark udall wrote a letter to the head of the nsa saying the fact sheet was bunk. they said they had a problem with some of the information on that fact sheet. they said they couldnt explain the exact nature of the problem in this letter without revealing classified information, but you know what,...

Surveillance act. according to this fact sheet that the nsa made available for a hot second before they tried to erase it, the government does not target americans for intelligence purposes. and if it does target a u.s. person by accident, "any inadvertently acquired communication of or concerning a u.s. person must be promptly destroyed if it is neither relevant to the authorized purpose nor evidence of a crime." shortly after the nsa put up that fact sheet on their website, senators ron wyden ...

But admitting that he lied to congress after having previously told a different story, that was itself actually untrue about the lie in the first place, beep, beep, beep -- >> nothing. the only people who seem concerned are, as you mentioned, udall and wyden, paul on the republican side. youd think the republican party which is so angry about intrusive government and obama care and the supposed irs scandal even if its sort of a non-scandal, youd think that they would care. but no, theres just ab...