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05-19-2015, 12:40 PM
ACLU, Tea Party take on federal spying: 'They've gone too far'
By Julian Hattem
05/19/15 12:09 PM EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLoVTJKIkfc
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a top Tea Party organization are teaming up to pressure lawmakers to oppose renewing controversial parts of the Patriot Act that undergird National Security Agency (NSA) operations.
The strange bedfellows of the ACLU and Tea Party Patriots will be running joint TV advertisements in Washington, D.C., as well as the early presidential primary states of New Hampshire and Iowa.
The ads increase the political pressure on the Senate to rein in the NSA, and reflect the growing coalition that has risen up to oppose the agency's spying practices.
“The federal government surveillance program has collected records on nearly every Americans’ phone calls, emails — your most private moments — without a warrant, without cause and without your permission,” a narrator says in the 30-second ad.
Among those communications, the ad implies, are those between a doctor and their patient as well as a troop stationed abroad chatting with his daughter over the Internet.
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read more:
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/242502-aclu-tea-party-run-anti-nsa-ads-in-dc-iowa-new-hampshire
By Julian Hattem
05/19/15 12:09 PM EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLoVTJKIkfc
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a top Tea Party organization are teaming up to pressure lawmakers to oppose renewing controversial parts of the Patriot Act that undergird National Security Agency (NSA) operations.
The strange bedfellows of the ACLU and Tea Party Patriots will be running joint TV advertisements in Washington, D.C., as well as the early presidential primary states of New Hampshire and Iowa.
The ads increase the political pressure on the Senate to rein in the NSA, and reflect the growing coalition that has risen up to oppose the agency's spying practices.
“The federal government surveillance program has collected records on nearly every Americans’ phone calls, emails — your most private moments — without a warrant, without cause and without your permission,” a narrator says in the 30-second ad.
Among those communications, the ad implies, are those between a doctor and their patient as well as a troop stationed abroad chatting with his daughter over the Internet.
...
read more:
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/242502-aclu-tea-party-run-anti-nsa-ads-in-dc-iowa-new-hampshire