CD037: NSA Spying Debate

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

News, Congress, Government, Politics, Corporations

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2013

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan tried to attach an amendment to the Department of Defense funding bill for 2014 which would have limited the government's authority to collect our telephone records. The amendment failed but not by much; the episode highlights the debate. Links to Information in This Episode Text of the Amash Amendment At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following new section: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to execute a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order pursuant to section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 () that does not include the following sentence: ``This Order limits the collection of any tangible things (including telephone numbers dialed, telephone numbers of incoming calls, and the duration of calls) that may be authorized to be collected pursuant to this Order to those tangible things that pertain to a person who is the subject of an investigation described in section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ().''. The FISA court The death of Thinthread: The system that could have stopped 9/11 Total Information Awareness Edward Snowden worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, not the U.S. government "Company filings show that 99% of Booz Allen's revenue comes from various levels of the federal government" from Representatives Quoted in This Episode

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0:00.0	And the I am so damn tired of being like to.
0:15.0	I am so damn tired of being like to.
0:20.0	I don't think I can't deny it anymore.
0:27.0	You can't stick to your story if you think it flies
0:40.0	But I'm not going to buy it anymore.
0:45.0	Hey there, friends, family, loyal congressional dish
0:49.2	listeners and new congressional dish listeners.
0:51.6	This is your host Jennifer Briny and
0:53.0	welcome to the 37th episode of congressional dish. For those of you who are new to
0:56.9	this show my whole angle is that I'm reading the bills that pass the House of
1:00.8	representatives and letting you know what's in them.
1:03.8	And for those of you who have been listening, you'll figure out very soon that I'm a liar,
1:07.8	liar, pants on fire, because I told you that this episode would be a conversation between me and husband Joe about what
1:15.8	he's dealing with as a solar engineer dealing with the private utilities.
1:21.1	And we will probably still air that conversation at some point, but I decided to switch up this episode because something actually happened in the house this week that hit national news and people are talking about.
1:33.3	So I decided to scrap that episode and instead we're going to look at the highlights of
1:38.4	the Amash Amendment debate and this amendment was to the 2014 Department of Defense funding bill.
1:44.6	Now, just in case you're confused because it was my fault, I confused you.
1:49.4	Back in June there was the National Defense Authorization, the NDA that was passed for 2014 and I kept
1:55.7	calling that the funding bill. Turns out it's not the funding bill, the Appropriations
1:59.8	Bill is the funding bill, and I still don't quite understand what the difference between
2:05.4	those two bills are because I was able to get the numbers from the
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