Tornado Alley (PROG)

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conix, Pelosi appears fine, and would run rings around the unstable, Republican president in any arena.

yes, but.

https://theintercept.com/2018/01/11/nsa-pelosi-democrats-spy-american-section-702/

WITH SUPPORT FROM NANCY PELOSI, HOUSE GIVES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BROAD LATITUDE TO SPY ON AMERICANS
Alex Emmons

WITH BIPARTISAN BACKING, the House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would renew one of the government’s most sweeping surveillance authorities for six years with minimal changes.

The measure, which passed 256-164, reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which was set to expire later this month.

The law was first passed in 2008 to legalize President George W. Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program. It allows the National Security Agency to collect Americans’ communications with people overseas, as long as the NSA is “targeting” the foreigners involved.

The vote followed a morning of confusion, as President Donald Trump tweeted in opposition to the bill, referencing a conspiracy theory about then-President Barack Obama spying on the Trump campaign. He walked himself back two hours later, tweeting, “We need it! Get Smart!”

The law serves as the legal backing for two mammoth NSA programs revealed by Edward Snowden: Upstream, which collects information from the internet junctions where data passes in and out of the country, and PRISM, which collects communications from U.S.-based internet companies, like Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Yahoo...