Uphill battle for NSA Reform Bill

It's about time somebody takes the NSA down a notch...

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/29/nsa_reform_bill_gathers_steam/

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Despite its title smacking of an almost parodied nationalism, the USA Freedom Act proposes to set important limits on the sprawling dragnet surveillance programs operated by the NSA.

On Tuesday, the very same Wisconsin Republican who authored the Patriot Act, Jim Sensenbrenner, introduced the USA Freedom Act to the House. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., introduced a companion bill in the Senate.

The legislation would end bulk domestic phone data collection practices — like those carried out under the NSA’s PRISM program, revealed to the public via Edward Snowden’s leaks this summer. The bills also propose banning the NSA from sifting through foreign data collections to identify information related to U.S. citizens.

The Brennan Center’s Elizabeth Goitein commented that the bill seemed to strike a sensible “middle ground” between enabling intelligence gathering for national security purposes and upholding Fourth and First Amendment protections. “This bill would go a long way toward restoring the presumption of privacy for the communications and personal information of law-abiding Americans,” Goitein said.