Advocates Urge House to Amend Senate Intelligence Bill
The House should amend a Senate intelligence bill and “cure critical defects,” civil liberties groups and others wrote Tuesday. Groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans for Prosperity, Demand Progress, Fight for the Future and Free Press Action oppose…
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the Intelligence Authorization Act (S-3905). They urged the House to add the Lee-Leahy amendment (see 2005140061), which overwhelmingly passed the Senate in the USA Freedom Reauthorization Act but ultimately failed. The House has “been prevented from casting a single meaningful vote in support of serious civil liberties protections despite nearly unanimous support and decades of abuse of the executive branch's staggering surveillance powers,” said Demand Progress Senior Policy Counsel Sean Vitka.