[h3] Senate Committee Votes to Authorize Warrentless Wiretapping
[/h3]The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill that [a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71778-0.html?tw=wn_index_1"]not only authorizes, but extends, US warrentless wiretapping[/a]. No accountability. No oversight. No definition of 'terrorist.' No record of who voted for what. Great way to devolve a democratic republic into a fascist theocracy. Me worried? Yea.
Here is the text of [a href="http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/s2453.pdf"]SB2453, the National Security Surveillance Act[/a] (PDF). Confusingly, the committee also voted out two other bills, one of which "all but declares the warrantless wiretapping illegal," according to Wired.
