[governance] Senate Panel Votes to Extend Gov’t Surveillance Powers

[Riaz K Tayob]

[Context matters. . . can do, because Icann? ]

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/23-0

Published on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 by Democracy Now!
Senate Panel Votes to Extend Gov’t Surveillance Powers

A Senate panel has voted to extend a controversial provision of the 
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that is set to expire at the end 
of the year. The Obama administration has sought to renew its expanded 
authority to monitor phone calls and emails inside the United States if 
one person involved is abroad and the targets foreigners believed to be 
outside the country. The vote by the Senate Select Committee on 
Intelligence comes shortly after news the U.S. Supreme Court will 
consider whether a group of activists, journalists and lawyers 
represented by the American Civil Liberties Union have the legal right 
to challenge the U.S. government’s surveillance practices, which they 
say could pick up their communications with clients and sources overseas.


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