The ACLU watched in horror and impotence this summer as the Protect America Act vastly expanded the NSA’s warrantless surveillance authority. With House Democrats pushing a PAA fix that still gives civil libertarians shpilkis, the ACLU is determined not to watch history repeat itself, especially as the Senate prepares a companion bill that worries the organization even more. So the ACLU is taking an aggressive approach: passing on what it freely concedes are rumors concerning what’s in the bill in order to pressure Senators against violating civil-libertarian red-lines. What follows is an example.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179635