Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Lawmakers are trying to expand the surveillance powers of intelligence agencies to make spying more seamless when a terror suspect enters the U.S., the Associated Press reports.
The idea is to close the gap between NSA and FBI electronic surveillance, which occurs because of different legal standards between the two agencies.
That gap poses challenges in keeping surveillance uninterrupted as suspects enter the U.S.
The AP reports:
The chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., told The Associated Press that her committee is drafting a bill that would amend the law’s Section 702 provision, which authorizes targeting non-Americans outside the U.S., to allow uninterrupted spying on a suspect for “a limited period of time after the NSA learns the target has traveled to the United States, so the government may obtain a court order based on probable cause.”
The proposed changes will include testimony from top intelligence officials.
This bill would seem to strengthen our surveillance by improving coordination between agencies. We need changes like this. We don’t need indiscriminate collection of personal data on Americans like the PRISM program. That has to stop.
But NSA says, “We’re hunting terrorists, so we don’t need no stinking 4th Amendment.”
The only real solution is to stash all your stuff in a private cloud, like a Cloudlocker (www.cloudlocker.it) that works like a cloud service but stays at home where they still need a warrant and probable cause that you’re a bad guy to look inside.