“A new
US law passed by Congress on Tuesday to reform widespread spying
programs by the National Security Agency (NSA) will do very little to
change the overall surveillance situation in the United States, an
American investigative journalist says. 'The USA Freedom Act will
continue this policy of warrantless wiretapping by the NSA,' said
Wayne Madsen, who is also an author specializing in international
affairs. 'The people who say that the USA Freedom Act will constrain
the NSA within legal bounds… they’re living in a dream world,
they know that they want to maintain NSA surveillance authorities,'
Madsen said during a phone interview with Press TV on Friday. 'The
only way to deal with NSA is not to mend it, is to end it, get rid of
it, get rid of the NSA and get rid of the CIA; we have too many
intelligence agencies that tear up the US Constitution on a daily
basis,' he added.”
“The
American Civil Liberties Union and other privacy advocates have
warned that the bill does little to ensure privacy. 'No one should
mistake this bill for comprehensive reform. The bill leaves many of
the government’s most intrusive and overbroad surveillance powers
untouched, and it makes only very modest adjustments to disclosure
and transparency requirements,' said Jameel Jaffer, the ACLU’s
deputy legal director.”
“Madsen
said the Obama administration has used the false threat of terrorists
and hackers to continue NSA surveillance programs. 'Of course the NSA
is going to use the excuse that they’re looking for hackers, when
in fact it’s very clear from looking at the documents revealed by
Edward Snowden that the NSA has nothing more than a surveillance
agenda, total surveillance of every means of communication, every
computer, every electronic transaction,' he stated.”
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