Posts Tagged ‘patriot-act’

First to surrender: Michael Bloomberg

April 23rd, 2013 | No Comments

In wake of the Boston bombing, I expected a whole lot of knee-jerk reactions.  First major meltdown apparently is New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. “The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry,” Mr. Bloomberg said during a press conference in Midtown. “But we live in a complex word where you’re going to [...]

Obama hearts Google data requests

April 20th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Remember all that talk about The Patriot Act?  The fear of Big Brother?  How you were losing all your civil rights?  All of that would be changed by electing Barack Obama.  Well guess what, it has: The United States various governments have made 3,580 data requests from Google between July 1, 2009 and December 31, [...]

The Patriot Act filibuster fails miserably

February 17th, 2006 | 1 Comment

Starting in early December 2005, debate began on renewing The Patriot Act. As soon as it began, the Democrats started threatening to filibuster it. Due to this threat, on a last second deal, the Senate extended it to allow more debate at a later time. As soon as it came back up, the Dems renewed [...]