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Re-authorized in 2006, re-authorized in 2011. fisa oversighted this mass vacuuming up of american data and for those not accused of wrongdoing approved by congress in 2007 and reapproved in 2027 this past december. remember the controversy? no, you don't because it didn't happen. even the specifics being authorized by these votes every once in a while rises up and horrifies us what it means for our privacy. in the abstract the broad authorities for government to keep doing it keep getting okayed. we have new specific data last night about the nsa directing the mass seizure of verizon's phone d...

That amendment failed, too. back to 2005 senators tried and amendment that would have kept the nsa from seizing your phone records unless they had specific facts showing the records they wanted was quote the agent of a foreign power, that amendment was sponsored by idaho senator larry craig of wide stance fame, co-sponsored by an illinois senator named barack obama. again, that one failed, too. never went anywhere. none of those amendments ever went anywhere. no effort to curtail this kind of power has ever gone anywhere in congress since they killed the total information awareness office but ...

The total information awareness office but none of the associated programs. that was a long time ago. the patriot act was not only authorized in 2001, re-authorized in 2006, re-authorized in 2011. fisa oversighted this mass vacuuming up of american data and for those not accused of wrongdoing approved by congress in 2007 and reapproved in 2027 this past december. remember the controversy? no, you don't because it didn't happen. even the specifics being authorized by these votes every once in a while rises up and horrifies us what it means for our privacy. in the abstract the broad authorities ...

Wondering. despite russ feingold's best efforts, it keeps getting re-authorized. barack obama, who as a candidate ran against the sort of abuses define this kind of policy making now as a president apparently fully bully embraces them. on both sides of the aisle, republicans and democrats spent the majority of the day demanding all the phone records for all of verizon's customers or passing it off as no big deal. this kind of suspicious list, spying on americans is the post 9/11 bipartisan governing consensus of the country. roger vinson is just part of it. joining me now, senator merkley, dem...

Was standing up to the white house and blocking the reauthorization of the warrantless wiretapping program. rick, it seems as if you must be a republican, if president obama hopes to get anyone through any sort of nomination process, he or she must have logged in some time in the republican administration. >> above all, in a job like this one. i mean, we i've just been trying to think if there ever was an fbi director who wasn't a republican, and i don't think i can come up with one. certainly j. edgar hoover, had some would describe as a new deal democrat. >> to your point, karen this guy sto...