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In reply to the discussion: How the Snowden Affair Became a Freak Show [View all]allin99
(894 posts)i think he did iirc. Oh yeah, here's him last year on Democracy Now:
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/12/28/outgoing_rep_dennis_kucinich_with_2
REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: The attempt is to give the government even more powers to spy, and that is really being translated into domestic, quote-unquote, "intelligence," even though its called the foreign intelligence bill.
We have to ask questions. Whats going on in our country, where we dont have oversight of the activities of the government when it comes to domestic spying? And what are we doing in America, where the privacy concerns of Americans are swept aside?
Were entering into a brave new world, which involves not only the government apparatus being able to look in massive databases and extract information to try to profile people who might be considered threats to the prevailingto the status quo. This is a nightmare. And the FISA bill is just one example of how America is going in a direction that undermines the expectations of not just the right to privacy, but the right to be free of unreasonable search and seizure, the demand that any action thats taken to get information about people should be subject to a warrant, that it not be subject to just any FBI agent determining that this is information they want on that person. This is bad news.
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