Democrats dance with danger: Expanding Trump's security state may bite them in the end
7 years, 2 months ago

Democrats dance with danger: Expanding Trump's security state may bite them in the end

Salon  

On Thursday, the Senate passed a six-year extension to renew a controversial set of invasive, and arguably unconstitutional, surveillance methods — allowing President Donald Trump's intelligence agencies to continue widespread surveillance measures. "You can use Section 702 to target foreigners abroad if they anything that could affect U.S. foreign affairs — whether that's an international business person, an environmental, political or religious activist, a professor or scientist, a journalist," Robyn Greene, the policy counsel and government affairs lead at New America's Open Technology Institute, told Salon. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on the Senate floor that Section 702 "remains one the most important tools that our national security professionals use to combat terrorism and to keep Americans safe." Democrats joined forces with Republicans to overwhelmingly pass a larger-than-life $700 billion defense budget, despite Trump's limited temperament, and campaign promises to torture suspects and "take out" the families of alleged terrorists.

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