US Republican Senators Come Out In Force To Keep NSA’s Domestic Surveillance Alive

Uploaded on 2015-05-12 in NEWS-Cybersecurity News, INTELLIGENCE--USA, FREE TO VIEW

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One by one, several powerful Republican senators took to the floor recently to offer one of the most full-throated defenses of the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of billions of US phone records since Edward Snowden exposed the program nearly two years ago.
The crux of their argument is unmistakable: The NSA’s expansive surveillance powers need to remain intact and unchanged to keep Americans safe from potential terrorist threats and if these powers existed before September 11, 2001, they may have assisted in preventing the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
But some of the talking points used by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his allies appear to rely heavily on assertions that are either dubious in their veracity or omit important contextual details.
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