"How To Fight Mass Surveillance Even Though Congress Just Reauthorized It" EU Net Privacy Breach Fine Greater 4% Global Annual Turnover Or $24.5 MM Senate OKs Mass Surveillance To Extend Unconstitutional FISA 702 Six Years Despite Calling For Reform 18 Demos Join GOP OK Unlawful Domestic Spying Unconstitutional FISA 702 Spying Six-Year Extension House Approved 256-164 65 Demos Join GOP Vote Warrantless Mass Surveillance So Bill Passes House

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A yearslong effort by a bipartisan group of lawmakers to impose significant new privacy limits on the NSA’s warrantless surveillance program fell short on Thursday

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UPDATED to 26 January 2018

       Thursday, 11 January 2018, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) unconstitutional end-run around legitimately authorized courts which FISA courts are not authorized under the United States Constitution and therefore operate illegally out of public view in which unlawful secret monkey judge courts routinely rubber-stamp approximately 999 out of 1,000 secret surveillance "requests" from executive branch agencies well-versed in unconstitutional unlawful practices kept secret under uncodified fabricated privileges from "national security", to "state secrets", to "concealing rank stupidity", etc. from illegal warrantless domestic spying to gang stalking, kidnapping, torture, murder and assassination including of United States citizens abroad (and not abroad such as in New York City, see, e.g., Frank Olson) provides in FISA Amendments section the 702 "sunset provision" extended to 19 January 2018 that the National Security Agency (NSA) (remarkably still operational even though former President Obama's Secretary Of Defense Ash Carter and DNI James Clapper unsuccessfully recommended over a year ago that U.S. Cyber Command and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers be booted for gross incompetence the NSA now best known for never having caught a real terrorist but only its own employees and contractors as well as having lost control of most all of its "Tailored Access Operations" (since renamed for public relations reasons similar to those for renaming Betsy DeVos' brother Founder Erik Prince's "Backwater" aka "Blackdeath" global mercenary murderers) weaponized "exploits" now used by global hostile nations and cybercriminals to launch state cyberattacks and private ransomware attacks including by which the NSA has helped North Korea fund its nuclear weapons program) may under said section 702 conduct warrantless surveillance of foreigners including the "incidental" domestic U.S. person(s) with whom they are communicating.
       The NSA has grossly abused unconstitutional section 702 in direct violation of the law to target domestic warrantless surveillance as well as making those domestic databases for their pals at say the F.B.I. and fellow bunch of corrupt prostitute cartel partier DEA drunks unconstitutionally available not just for national security but just "backdoor" warrantless law enforcement surveillance purposes in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment then undisclosed by prosecutors just as dishonest as police officers perjuring themselves in court to defendants under illegal "parallel construction" with the U.S. House of Representatives voting today 256-164 to extend said unconstitutional FISA section 702 authority for six years additionally codifying unconstitutional "about" domestic surveillance with no added privacy protections for another six years.
       The FISA section 702 surveillance state extension would have failed were the Republicans who did vote in the affirmative not joined by 65 Democrats voting with them with the names and votes of all individual members of both parties for interested readers shown in the final "roll call vote" linked to below. Next up to vote is the U.S. Senate which does not appear promising for those opposed with Majority Leader McConnell (R-KY) in advance barring any amendments although Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has said he will filibuster this reprehensible clearly unconstitutional advancement of the U.S. mass surveillance police state which never would have been tolerated by the Founding Fathers.
       If it does pass the Senate it is expected to be signed into law by the earlier very confused President Trump as briefly set out in the article linked to below before the incompetent Trump later lapsed into a witnessed by several Senators unprecedented presidential racist vulgar rant about Haiti and African nations about which he since of course is lying in denials and Republican Senators present naturally also are deflecting and/or lying that they "cannot recall" or "could not hear" during what was an otherwise uneventful day at the White House adult day care center. Following the first article linked to below for interested readers are links to a few materials touching on some background of NSA gross ineptitude and U.S. Government abuses of U.S. citizens that have occurred under the totally inept NSA's previous intentional illegal misuse of FISA section 702 authorization.
       UPDATED to 18 January 2018: Please see uppermost links (below those on surveillance and on new EU GDPR penalties for Facebook and others' privacy breaches up to the greater of 4% annual global turnover or $24 million)  for news articles detailing later Senate developments which include the 18 Democratic senators listed below joining GOP senators to overcome a filibuster by one vote allowing the Senate to proceed to a final vote passing a six-year extension of unconstitutional FISA section 702 mass surveillance 65-34 as the House already has with the bill now only awaiting President Trump's signature.
       UPDATED to 26 January 2018: "How To Fight Mass Surveillance Even Though Congress Just Reauthorized It" by Bruce Schneier security technologist and lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University essential reading for those of the People determined to fight for and protect their inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness also including but not limited to all of the Bill of Rights and its penumbras today under constant State assault amidst the State's persistent bogus claims of "national security" and other non-existent "privileges" codified nowhere such as "state secrets" including from unconstitutional domestic mass government surveillance and other unlawful State invasions of privacy from an illegitimate State that has irrevocably violated its compact with the People by failing collectively to uphold its oath to the Constitution here having passed just one further grossly corrosive law with Congress including Democrats listed by roll call vote below joining GOP members in passing and Trump signing into law a six-year extension (bound to become permanent if the State has its way) of the clearly unconstitutional unlawful FISA section 702  unconstitutional on its face as well as in corrupt State domestic law enforcement (not even limited to intelligence) agency practices associated with it including but not limited to "incidental" warrantless domestic surveillance abuses by law enforcement and perpetuated by illegal unconstitutional "parallel construction" including with State-sanctioned prosecutorial withholding of exculpatory evidence and law enforcement officers routinely lying under oath expressly and by omission in U.S. courts of law can be found by interested readers at the first link below.
        Readers further interested in this unconstitutional law and what challenges now in motion at home and abroad may force its reconsideration and reform or replacement can go to the ACLU Blog dated 18 January 2018 "Congress Just Passed A Terrible Surveillance Law. Now what?" confirming that the ACLU has determined that FISA section 702 as drafted and further unlawfully utilized by the State is unconstitutional and in violation without limitation of constitutional IVth Amendment and privacy protections can go to the second link below.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who had appeared ready to side with privacy advocates to scale back a warrantless surveillance program under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, instead cast a crucial vote to leave the program largely unchanged. (Michael Reynolds / EPA/Shutterstock)

o https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/01/25/how-to-fight-mass-surveillance-even-though-congress-just-reauthorized-it/?utm_term=.656817fea965 How to fight mass surveillance
o https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/privacy-and-surveillance/congress-just-passed-terrible-surveillance-law-now what?
o https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-sandberg-privacy/facebook-to-hand-privacy-controls-to-users-ahead-of-eu-law-idUSKBN1FC1Q6 EU net privacy breach penalties up to greater 4% annual global turnover / $24.5 million
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-passes-bill-to-extend-key-surveillance-program-sending-it-to-trumps-desk/2018/01/18/3f8d5036-fc71-11e7-8f66-2df0b94bb98a_story.html?utm_term=.3ee3aded459e Senate 65-34 votes for unconstitutional FISA 702 mass warrantless surveillance six-year extension without privacy reform
o http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-fisa-democrats-20180117-story,amp.html Demos help kill spying reform
o https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-surveillance/senate-advances-bill-to-renew-nsas-internet-surveillance-program-idUSKBN1F528V Senate bill advances one vote short of Senators faithful to Constitution
o https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/01/17/these-18-senate-democrats-just-voted-hand-trump-mass-spying-powers These 18 Senate Democrats' votes will allow 6 more years unconstiutional mass surveillance

o https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-congress-trump.html
o https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/us/politics/right-left-react-nsa-spying-warantless-surveillance.html
o http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2018/roll016.xml Final House roll call vote on this legislation
o https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbyp59/house-vote-702-fisa Unconstitutional "about" collection
o https://theintercept.com/2017/11/30/nsa-surveillance-fisa-section-702/ Unlawful Domestic FISA 702 Surveillance
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6zbqtLoHqg Do Not Reauthorize FISA Sec. 702 Ends 31 December 2017 "A Wake-Up Call For Americans" Video 10:49 IC Vast Abuse Unconstitutional Targeted Domestic Surveillance
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjgL6osVpLA FiSA Sec. 702 DNI Coats Lies  Reneges On DNI Promise To Produce # Americans "Incidentally" Surveilled Now Says Promised Statistics National Security Threat Video 4:24
o https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/09/14/q-us-warrantless-surveillance-under-section-702-foreign-intelligence-surveillance Human Rights Watch Q+A FISA section 702 warrantless mass surveillance
o https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/politics/russia-nsa-hackers-kaspersky.html Russia NSA Cyberweapons
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hackers-exploited-antivirus-software-to-steal-us-cyber-capabilities/2017/10/05/a01bf546-a9fc-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html?utm_term=.a86bb9bec0b3 Russia Steals NSA Cyberweapons Kaspersky Hack 2015 (Video 2:26 Cyberweapons)
o http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-standards-insight/distrustful-u-s-allies-force-spy-agency-to-back-down-in-encryption-fight-idUSKCN1BW0GV feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29 Cyrptography Experts Reject NSA ISO Standards
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-and-intelligence-community-chiefs-have-urged-obama-to-remove-the-head-of-the-nsa/2016/11/19/44de6ea6-a Pdff-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html?utm_term=.cea6951748dd Ash And Clapper Ask Obama Fire NSA Rogers

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Declassify Secret Russia Role In U.S. Election Intelligence President Obama Urged To Disclose By Seven Intelligence Committee Senators In Open Letter

     Friday, 2 December 2016, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Seven Democratic senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee in an "unprecedented"  three sentence open letter to President Barack Obama obtained, shown and read verbatim yesterday to viewers by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow urged the President to declassify further intelligence concerning Russian interference with the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election so that the information can be disclosed to the American people. The senators apparently were familiar with the classified information but disclosed nothing in their short open letter which concluded by stating they would follow-up with specifics to President Obama through "classified channels" and thanking him for giving his attention to this important matter. The Republican senators on the committee declined to sign the letter.
     To date there have been rare direct public statements by two U.S. intelligence agencies before the election those being the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security specifically placing blame for cyberattack hacking interference attempts directed at the U.S. election as being perpetrated by the Russian state including particularly by targeting both the Democratic National Committee and the campaign of Hillary Clinton then feeding stolen and possibly altered emails through Wikileaks for internet release specifically to damage Ms. Clinton's campaign to the benefit of now President-elect Trump's campaign.
     Following the election Admiral Michael Rogers director of the National Security Agency delivered an emphatic public statement again emphasizing that to a certainty Russia was the state party responsible for attempts and/or interference with the U.S. election. Admiral Rogers gave the strong impression that he meant to warn the public that it should take the Russian threat seriously which has not necessarily been the case to date doubtless not helped as Mr. Trump largely has conveyed a lack of confidence or concern or even interest in the intelligence he has been provided on matters of national security in his position as President-elect.
     Also as previously reported here in an earlier post a "top official" with the "administration" provided on condition of anonymity for undisclosed reasons a brief written statement devoid of any detail but "defending the integrity" of the election. The warnings of intelligence officials now augmented by the senators' letter to President Obama strongly suggest that the White House is downplaying some matter of significant concern including by withholding information necessary for the American people to grasp its gravity. Nor has further information been forthcoming as to the unusual somewhat cryptic uncharacteristic quiet threat with a slight smile by Vice-President Biden during an interview before the election that the United States was going to (presumably) retaliate for cyberattack interference with the presidential election or possibly anything else assessed as an attack against U.S. interests essentially "in an appropriate manner in a time and a place of our choosing."
     Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul briefly interviewed in the video link below when informed of the senators' open letter to the President said that such an action was to his knowledge "unprecedented". Although not being privy to the classified information at issue as he has been out of the government for a couple years and now is a professor at Stanford University he stated that just given the fact that these senators had felt it necessary to take such an unprecedented action as the open letter urging the President's disclosure of some classified intelligence was "deeply disturbing" and indicative of something quite consequential of which the American people have not been apprised. Senator Wyden of Oregon who apparently was the lead senator on the letter would provide no information whatsoever about the letter nor to what it referred. Readers interested in more information can go to the first link below which shows an MSNBC video about this matter of about ten minutes length.
     Readers can go to the second link below if interested in more broader background on Russian covert influence efforts that a "senior intelligence official" yesterday told Reuters have been increasing in Europe in recent years as part of a larger campaign against the United States and other Western nations seeking to disrupt and discredit democratic institutions, nations and alliances such as NATO as well as noting the coordinated efforts of these nations to monitor and respond to these threats, including as described by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper in a September 2016 letter to Congress just made available to Reuters on 2 December 2016 asking that Congress not attempt itself to probe Russian covert influence attempts as there already are ongoing coordinated efforts with other nations with these efforts underway best left to U.S. and partner intelligence agencies to avoid duplication of effort and not risk disruption of already developed coordination between these nations' intelligence agencies.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senators-seek-to-declassify-info-on-russia-role-in-us-election-822587459996

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