HomeUploadUpload DirectHotlinkRandomAbouttheme toggle

How the Government Uses A Foreign Surveillance Law to Spy on Americans

Views: 870
It's time to rein in warrantless domestic surveillance before it's too late.

---

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/reasontv Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Reason.Magaz... Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reason Subscribe to our podcast at iTunes: https://goo.gl/az3a7a Reason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Go to reason.com for a point of view you won't get from legacy media and old left-right opinion magazines.

---

As former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed to the world in 2013, the U.S. government routinely spies on its own citizens.

"I, sitting at my desk, could wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president," Snowden told the journalists crowded into his hotel room before the publication of his leaked documents.

The leaks exposed lies from government officials about the mass surveillance of American citizens, with former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testifying before Congress that the NSA didn't "wittingly" collect any data on millions of Americans.

Four years after the Snowden leaks, the government is still collecting Americans' private information. Though the NSA claims it ended bulk collection of domestic phone calls, the agency is still operating several other far-reaching domestic spying programs.

Now there's a way to end these unconstitutional practices. The NSA gets its authority to spy on U.S. Citizens from Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act. The law will expire this year after it hits its five-year sunset. Lawmakers will soon be deliberating over whether to renew Section 702 for another five years or maybe even make it permanent.

Watch the video above to see why it's vital that they let Section 702 lapse.

Produced by Zach Weissmueller. Music by Kai Engel and Lee Rosevere.
@ReasonVidsfollow
Thumbnail for Our Amazing Debt (Cosmos Parody)2:35
Our Amazing Debt (Cosmos Parody)
ReasonVids
882 views
Thumbnail for “I enjoy looking like a clown” - no shit.0:34
“I enjoy looking like a clown” - no shit.
AOU
5821 views
Thumbnail for Based Swedish man tired of welfare leech niggers is not having it anymore.1:09
Based Swedish man tired of welfare leech niggers is not having it anymore.
AOU
6062 views
Thumbnail for ⁣Are you ready for ”Climate lockdown”?1:02
⁣Are you ready for ”Climate lockdown”?
AOU
2107 views
Thumbnail for "I got you bro"0:10
"I got you bro"
AOU
2249 views
Thumbnail for Douce France3:07
Douce France
AOU
1407 views
Thumbnail for 13 do 700:36
13 do 70
bestofvoatxyz
2130 views
Thumbnail for Erie School District lawyer's comments enrage crowd4:46
Erie School District lawyer's comments enrage crowd
AOU
2155 views
Thumbnail for No Hard R12:15
No Hard R
murdochmurdoch
2596 views
Thumbnail for "Of course jews don't really participate in athletics, that's what we use to divert the energy of the gentiles whilst we take over the systems of power"0:36
"Of course jews don't really participate in athletics, that's what we use to divert the energy of the gentiles whilst we take over the systems of power"
bestofvoatxyz
824 views
Thumbnail for Fat naked sheboon attacks KFC0:33
Fat naked sheboon attacks KFC
AOU
5295 views
Thumbnail for Horses don't wanna be fags.0:26
Horses don't wanna be fags.
AOU
1656 views
Thumbnail for Exploitation: It's Okay When We Do It | Ride and Roast27:26
Exploitation: It's Okay When We Do It | Ride and Roast
Terrence Popp
1239 views
Thumbnail for Psychedelic Science: Magic Mushrooms5:00
Psychedelic Science: Magic Mushrooms
ReasonVids
845 views
Thumbnail for Ted Pike tried warn us in 19871:28
Ted Pike tried warn us in 1987
x0x7
173 views
Thumbnail for Blame Biden for High Gas Prices3:53
Blame Biden for High Gas Prices
ReasonVids
949 views
Thumbnail for Why Millennials Hate Free Speech and What to Do About It53:03
Why Millennials Hate Free Speech and What to Do About It
ReasonVids
912 views
Thumbnail for 🐍 The Ultimate Redpill on Jewish Genociders1:00
🐍 The Ultimate Redpill on Jewish Genociders
moviegoats
635 views
Thumbnail for  FactChecker.org Funded by Organization that owns $2 Billion in J&J Stock1:43
FactChecker.org Funded by Organization that owns $2 Billion in J&J Stock
AOU
1609 views
Thumbnail for Gator water slide0:16
Gator water slide
bestofvoatxyz
724 views
Thumbnail for Police Shoot, Kill 80-Year-Old Man In His Own Bed, Don't Find the Drugs They Were Looking For7:40
Police Shoot, Kill 80-Year-Old Man In His Own Bed, Don't Find the Drugs They Were Looking For
ReasonVids
931 views
Thumbnail for Rep. Justin Amash on Debt, Abortion, Immigration & More38:54
Rep. Justin Amash on Debt, Abortion, Immigration & More
ReasonVids
885 views

points

Permalink
Reply
libertarian, reason magazine, reason.com, reason.tv, reasontv, nsa, warrantless spying, edward snowden, national security agency, surveillance, eff, wiretapping, trump, russia, fisa, fisa memo
TOS  •  Add Keywords  •  Donate  •   Analytics  •   DMCA  •   Puzzle