The good news though is that it was a close call in the house with 217 to 205. Democrats – by a very small margin – provided the needed majority to let the NSA continue with its aggressive and far-reaching collecting of phone records.
Do you think this would have been possible without Edward Snowden spilling the beans?
I don't understand it. What was accomplished? Didn't they fail to stop it? I am sure Glenn has more revelations but they will find a way to justify this all. They have been doing it for years anyway. Just like the NDAA and other things they have passed in the past. There is outrage, people start getting hopeful, and then they forget or just move on with their life.
The NSA program can go ahead +Panah Rad after this vote.
+Max Huijgen oh no. I understand that. I fail to see what is positive about this 🙂 The NSA will do its thing and we simply do not have the votes to stop them at this point. Snowden or no Snowden, this makes me feel more pessimistic actually. 🙂
I think that the decision was already made, and the vote tally is just the show they decided to put on for the public.
Put a traffic generator on your router to send lots and lots of BitTorrent, Tor, and VPN traffic.
I think what +Max Huijgen means is that before 'Snowden' the vote would have been far more unbalanced. This was a pretty close call and had a lot of attention.
The Democrats will however pay a huge price during the next presidential election show, if it still happens.
This funding amendment would have never been proposed without Snowden because the "look at all the things" spying wasn't talked about outside of wingnut conspiracy websites.
In answer to your question, absolutely not.
Had to remove some trolls.
yes, I am getting a bit bitter now about the "yes we can" slogan
Well, it is a president who listens! +Anja W
Certainly to me as I'm an 'alien' 🙂
Well at least we are legal aliens +Catherine Maguire Not like these Genesis – Illegal Alien (1983)
+Anja W it was yes we sCan
my french is not so good +Marc Roelofs so I didn't hear that very well I guess
+Anja W with pictures it's better http://goo.gl/78v3aC
can't follow that link, post can't be found it says
Ow it wasn't shared public. Not important. Added you 🙂