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US Lawmaker Cited NYC Protests in a Defense of Warrantless Spying
A closed-door presentation for House lawmakers late last year portrayed American anti-war protesters as having possible ties to Hamas in an effort to kill privacy reforms to a major US spy program.
In December, as many as 200 Republican staffers gathered behind closed doors to hear a presentation by House Intelligence chairman Mike Turner, one of several such meetings that day aimed at shoring up support for a US surveillance program known as Section 702. Both meetings were designed to dissuade House staffers from supporting the privacy reforms offered under the Judiciary bill; chiefly among them, an amendment that would force the FBI to obtain warrants before accessing the communications of Americans collected under the 702 program—phone calls, emails, and text messages intercepted by US spies in the process of eavesdropping on foreigners overseas. For obvious reasons, Germany has some of the strictest antisemitism laws in the world, enabling Berlin to issue blanket bans against protests aimed at raising awareness of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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