National Security Letters Reform Act Reintroduced

eldavojohn writes "A bill introduced today, similar to one that died in 2007, would reform the plague of National Security Letters and greatly narrow their scope. On top of that, it would mandate the destruction of any wrongly obtained information discovered in audits by the Inspector General that uncovered widespread improprieties in NSLs."

Re:About time

[WindBourne]

First, NSLs have been around since at least IKE, and I think even before that. The difference is that all prior admins showed restraint and only used them MOSTLY for real issues (a few, were known to be total BS).

As to those that supported the GD neo-cons and this behavior, I say let them swing along side of the top neo-cons. Every last one of these kind of ppls should be swinging for the traitors to the Constitution that they are.

Re:Oaths are violated by NSLs

[wstrucke]

it has got to be pretty clear by now that no one in Washington has the balls to even utter the word "treason" -- which is effectively what the blatant ignorance of the Supreme Law of the Land amounts to [truthout.org]

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Re:Surprise surprise!

[hedwards]

Perhaps I'll stop with my anti-Republicanism when they stop actively fighting my self interest.

If they want me to stop hating them perhaps they should stop fighting hate crimes legislation and preventing me from having all of my rights. Perhaps they should acknowledge that as a citizen, one that pays taxes no less, that I should have an equal amount of freedom.

But then again, we could just pretend like the party doesn't have some incredibly anti-American policies. Perhaps we could then force it into a dogma because clearly people's own self interest must be dogma.

I think it's vaguely ironic that you can't comprehend that people might hate the Republican party on it's merits without being strict partisans.

Re:Surprise surprise!

[Anonymous Coward]

"then you have to at least admit that there are both good or bad eggs on both sides of the aisle."

Since the Republicans had a majority in the legislature and the Executive Branch for quite some time, I think it is more than appropriate to blame Republicans for the messes the US is in now including but not limited to an extreme erosion of civil liberties and a disregard for the rule of law. The first vote I ever cast in a national election was for Newt's Republican Revolution. In high school, I actually wore for months the dollar-bill National Debt Awareness ribbon promoted by Limbaugh. I was a dittohead. But the republicans of the last 8 years seemed to have gone out of their way to alienate me. As far as I am concerned and until shown otherwise, I consider every last one of the Republicans to be incompetents or scumbags. I had hope that the Democrats would show some backbone and make some smart changes. I'm not so far all that impressed. But I still blame the Republicans for causing me to hate politics and politicians. Yeah.. that's why I'm anti-Republican.