"The House Judiciary Committee will hold a markup of an amended version of the USA Freedom Act on Wednesday, a surprising and sudden move that would essentially nullify the government's ability to collect bulk metadata of Americans' phone records."
"The more aggressive Freedom Act is sponsored by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, the one-time mastermind behind the post-9/11 Patriot Act, from which both the Obama and Bush administrations have derived much of the legal authority for their surveillance programs. Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican, has vocally condemned NSA spying since Edward Snowden's leaks surfaced last June. The bill has long been supported by privacy and civil-liberties groups who view it as the best legislative reform package in Congress."
This is one much needed action to push back against the massive state apparatus that is fast gaining total control over normal Americans. Although Obama will never sign it, the mere passage in the House and later, after November, in the Senate, will show the people who their friends are in Congress, and who are not. They can vote accordingly thereafter.
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