Sorry, I'm retarded. But didn't the article stipulate that this vote was for an amendment that broadened FBI surveillance powers within the scope of FISA?
Oh okay. So Yea votes were a vote in favor of this amendment. But because it did not reach the threshold of 60 yea votes this amendment did not go through? And because it did not go through it was left as was before?
“The Patriot Act should be repealed in its entirety, set on fire and buried in the ground,” Evan Greer, the deputy director of Fight For The Future, told Motherboard. “It’s one of the worst laws passed in the last century, and there is zero evidence that the mass surveillance programs it enables have ever saved a single human life.”
i agree with this... the amendment isn't the main thing.
Okay so I read the amendment. It was to stop the FBI to get access to internet browsing records in FISA-related orders. Yea votes were in favor of this (pro-privacy) amendment. However, they needed 60 votes for this to pass and it didn't so the amendment fell short by 1 Yea vote.
Yea vote was to end the spying.
Sorry, I'm retarded. But didn't the article stipulate that this vote was for an amendment that broadened FBI surveillance powers within the scope of FISA?
I'm having trouble understanding this whole vote.
No quite the opposite. The bill was created to prevent FBI from viewing your history.
Oh okay. So Yea votes were a vote in favor of this amendment. But because it did not reach the threshold of 60 yea votes this amendment did not go through? And because it did not go through it was left as was before?
Yes
that's what I thought too...re reading
“The Patriot Act should be repealed in its entirety, set on fire and buried in the ground,” Evan Greer, the deputy director of Fight For The Future, told Motherboard. “It’s one of the worst laws passed in the last century, and there is zero evidence that the mass surveillance programs it enables have ever saved a single human life.”
i agree with this... the amendment isn't the main thing.
I think this is one of those bills that will be looked as a stain on American history.
Okay so I read the amendment. It was to stop the FBI to get access to internet browsing records in FISA-related orders. Yea votes were in favor of this (pro-privacy) amendment. However, they needed 60 votes for this to pass and it didn't so the amendment fell short by 1 Yea vote.
yep i was distracted and skimmed way too fast. spying bad.