This is actually scary.

More and more of our freedoms are being taken away. What made this country great is soon going to be gone and we will not be able to speak freely about our government without running the risk of being arrested or "detained."

The thing that kills me is that this retroactively pardons the companies that BROKE THE LAW back after 9/11. I could tear my hair out.

It terrifies me that so many people are happy to hand over freedoms with no gain.

I just don't get it.

Big Business and Big Government win again.

goddamn the democrats suck...what a bunch of spineless whores...

Can WE PLEASE get another political party??? I am so sick of this I actually think i may not vote, because despite my beliefs, my awareness and knowledge have reached a point where it is obvious that it doesn't matter at all...

If we could just let the Greens and Libs have some air time, and then have runoff elections I could be a little happier...or maybe parliament-style...not P-Funk, I mean the UK.

Poor Harry! That picture speaks volumes about the work he has put in to unite the Dems in fighting this unconstitutional and anti-American law!

Sigh, no wonder hubby has been down, he's been tracking FTSA for months now....

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

I, for one, am relieved that kindly telecom megacorporations will no longer have to fear reprisals for betraying their customers' right to privacy. And my faith in the Congress to dutifully line up and request a thorough b**t-screwing on behalf of the American people remains undaunted! America is the greatest! Long live Democracy!

Who needs freedumb when you can feel safe?!

OHHHH NOOOOOOSSSS!!!
TERRORISTSSSSS!!!!!!

Pathetic.

Im in Yr Constitooshun
poopin.

quality...

The sad part is that, as much as it plays well on TV, what they did hurt more than it helped. The biggest problem facing intelligence agencies today is too much information to process. They are incapable of processing more than a small fraction of the data that comes in on a daily basis as it is. Adding to the flood, and with the gaps forced by "sneak and peak" practices, what they collected from the telco's was effectively noise obscuring the real intelligence that they're aiming at.

Cheers.