In what’s being billed as a momentum boost for anti-surveillance advocates, the US House of Representative on Thursday approved an amendment that significantly reigns in warrantless searches on Americans’ communication records.
By a vote of 293 to 123, a bipartisan coalition in the House voted to ban the National Security Agency from conducting “backdoor searches” on United States citizens, a process that allowed the intelligence community to collect data on Americans without a warrant as long as the official target was a foreigner. The program was first revealed by the Guardian, through documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
Jim Himes was against the Patriot Act, until he was against the Amash Amendment that would have emasculated the Patriot Act, until he was for the FREEDOM Act that would have replaced parts of the Patriot Act, until he was against the Massie Amendment which is the subject of the story above.
Can Jim Himes tell us where he stands on the Fourth Amendment? Then stick to it?
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