Ed Markey is Against NSA Spying!

[Indyfan53]

Ed is a true democrat. He spoke out against the NSA spying on phone calls.

http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/06/ed_markey_expresses_serious_co.html

[Laelth]

1. Good summary of what has been leaked so far.

News reports this week revealed the existence of two secret surveillance programs by the U.S. National Security Agency. The Guardian, a British newspaper, reported on one court order, in which the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court allowed the NSA to access all of Verizon’s phone records, domestic and international, on a daily basis for a three-month period, including information on the phone numbers of both parties, call time and duration, and unique identifiers. The second program, uncovered by The Washington Post, allowed the NSA and FBI to tap into the servers of nine U.S. Internet companies, extracting information including audio and video, e-mails, documents and connection logs.

And this, about Markey himself, is encouraging:

Markey’s office has pointed to Markey’s votes on a variety of surveillance-related bills in which Markey voiced privacy concerns. Markey voted against a 2007 reform of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that allow the government to wiretap communications to or from a foreign country without a court warrant. He opposed a 2008 bill that would have shielded telecommunications companies from lawsuits related to government’s warrantless wiretaps on phone lines.

Markey voted for the Patriot Act in 2001, a bill giving government broader authority to investigate foreign and domestic terrorism, but against reauthorizations of the Patriot Act in 2010 and 2011, and against making it permanent. His spokesman said Markey opposed giving the government overly broad power to investigate private records without consistent oversight and public debate.

If only I could get a Senator like that from Georgia.

-Laelth