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Weakened NSA bill passes out of House committee

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WASHINGTON, May 7 (UPI) -- A bipartisan bill to prohibit the bulk collection of phone records by the NSA was put on the fast-track to passage in the House, despite lingering skepticism from Democrats and civil liberties advocates who say the bill didn't go far enough to protect privacy.

An amendment to the USA Freedom Act, which was unanimously voted out of the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday, appeared to pave the way to avoid a clash between it and a similar bill from the House Intelligence Committee. The amendment allows the government to collect phone data on U.S. citizens in cases where "reasonable, articulable suspicion" of wrongdoing can be proved, which would in turn allow the government to collect metadata on individuals who are two "hops," or degrees of separation, from the suspect.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., a key defender of the NSA's surveillance and a co-author of the competing bill, called the change a "huge improvement" and hinted he would sink his own legislation in favor of the USA Freedom Act if passed.

Judiciary Committee leadership on both sides of the aisle touted the bipartisan effort to craft legislation that could make it through both houses and to the president's desk for signature, incorporating some of the recommendations made by the president's panel in December. Additional effort was made to please both those who supported the NSA surveillance, if perhaps not the method of collection revealed through leaks of classified information by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden last year, and those who decried it as a gross violation of privacy and civil liberties.

"Today's bill unequivocally ends bulk collection," said bill sponsor (and USA Patriot Act author) Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. "Let me repeat, there is no bulk collection."

The congressman's comments were likely directed at critics of the amendment who interpreted the language of the amendment would reopen the very loophole originally exploited by the NSA to conduct so-called "back-door" searches of American citizens' data.

"It ends up basically outsourcing mass surveillance strategy," explained Thomas Drake, a former NSA executive who faced espionage charges in 2010 for exposing waste and privacy violations at the agency, in an interview Tuesday.

Drake said he had supported the USA Freedom Act, changed his mind with the introduction of the manager's amendment.

"It's totally compromised," he said. "That's faux reform, that's kabuki dance reform. That's shadow reform."

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., perhaps trying to give Sensenbrenner an opportunity to reverse course, offered an amendment to the amendment that suggested omitting the content collection language was a "clerical error." She later withdrew her suggestion after Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said he "wasn't aware" of a such a mistake.

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November 7, 2003 | John J. Goldman, Times Staff Writer

The captain of the Staten Island ferry that crashed into a pier last month, killing 10 people, finally met with investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday, but would give only his name and age. NTSB head Ellen G. Engleman said that Michael Gansas exercised his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to answer questions about the Oct. 15 accident. "We hope we will be able to talk to Capt. Gansas in the future," Engleman said in a statement.

BUSINESS

March 23, 2002 | DAVID STREITFELD, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Nancy Temple, a lawyer for accounting firm Andersen being quizzed about her role in the shredding of Enron Corp. documents, cited her 5th Amendment right to keep silent 138 times Friday. Temple was deposed by lawyers who had filed a class-action suit against Andersen, which approved Enron's financial statements. In an unusual move, a federal judge in Houston permitted Temple and eight other Andersen employees to be questioned much earlier than such a case would normally allow.

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February 26, 2002

People who play the market are now at each other's throats. The Bulls & Tigers of Forest Hills, a ladies investment club of 10, meets every month to play the stock market. This month the meeting was held at Jane Peters' house. The club had made $20,000 in the year 2000, and while things went down in 2001, they could still barely hold their heads above water. When the going was good, they called themselves the Sunshine Ladies because they couldn't lose as far as their investments were concerned.

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