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thewayneI don't find that the least surprising. It's going to take lawsuits and new elections to shut it down, and even then, can we be sure? This started over a decade ago with things like the Total Information Awareness program, and when those were screamed down, quietly got broken in to little unnoticeable pieces and became things like PRISM.
The interesting thing about this particular article is that Wired hired a research agency to break down votes by how much money each representative receives from defense and intelligence contractors. Not terribly surprising, those who received the most money voted against the amendment. Only one person in the top 10 money recipients voted for the amendment.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/money-nsa-vote/
And I would suggest that you not bother wasting your time with the comments, they rapidly devolved in to 'a new civil war is coming' and it's all white against black. Where race entered in to this problem I do not know, it's more of a poor vs uber-rich.
The interesting thing about this particular article is that Wired hired a research agency to break down votes by how much money each representative receives from defense and intelligence contractors. Not terribly surprising, those who received the most money voted against the amendment. Only one person in the top 10 money recipients voted for the amendment.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/money-nsa-vote/
And I would suggest that you not bother wasting your time with the comments, they rapidly devolved in to 'a new civil war is coming' and it's all white against black. Where race entered in to this problem I do not know, it's more of a poor vs uber-rich.
