A proposal to restrict the NSA’s surveillance of Americans’ phone calls was defeated by a mere 12 votes in the House of Representatives on Wednesday in a battle that drew unusual bipartisan support at a time when partisanship is running at an all-time-high.
Reps. Justin Amash, R-Mich., and John Conyers, D-Mich., introduced an amendment to the defense-spending bill that sought, among other things, to restrict the collection of metadata to instances connected to a relevant ongoing investigation.
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Failed Vote Means No End in Sight to NSA's Data Slurping
Posted by: Richard Adhikari July 25, 2013 03:29 PMA proposal to restrict the NSA’s surveillance of Americans’ phone calls was defeated by a mere 12 votes in the House of Representatives on Wednesday in a battle that drew unusual bipartisan support at a time when partisanship is running at an all-time-high.
Reps. Justin Amash, R-Mich., and John Conyers, D-Mich., introduced an amendment to the defense-spending bill that sought, among other things, to restrict the collection of metadata to instances connected to a relevant ongoing investigation.