Grassley office: Leahy working behind closed doors on privacy bill

[Wehrwolfen]

Grassley office: Leahy working behind closed doors on privacy bill​

By: Josh Peterson
22 Nov 12


Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office leveled charges of working behind closed doors at Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and his office following allegations and denials that he is aiming to allow law enforcement’s push for warrantless surveillance.

Leahy’s office first used Twitter and his website to hit back against criticism following a Tuesday CNET report about the senator’s proposed amendment to a bill affecting two 1980s-era surveillance bills — the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act, and the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA).

Now Grassley, the committee ranking member, is charging that his office has been kept in the dark regarding the development of the bill.

Leahy’s office did not respond to TheDC’s request for further comment about who the senator has been working with on the issue.

A Senate Judiciary Committee aide, however, told TheDC that Leahy and his staff have had, and continue to have, discussions with various stakeholders in the privacy community, law enforcement “and many others.”

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Read more:
Grassley's office in the dark on Leahy's surveillance bill | The Daily Caller


Of course this is the "Transparency" Obama was speaking of.

 

[ba1614]

Yet the progressives will march right along in lock step defending the great obummer all the way.

 

[tyroneweaver]

Where's the aclu

 

[Wehrwolfen]

Hmm..., Didn't the Democrats led by Pelosi and Reid do the same for ObamaCare? They concocted the atrocity behind closed doors then told us they had to pass it before we could see it. This is a repeat performance of the Democratic Party. Same old methods.

 

[Oddball]

Good thing there isn't a left wing police state!

 

[Wehrwolfen]

Good thing there isn't a left wing police state!

It's here. Holder is waiting with baited breath to pull off another WACO and Oklahoma City bombing to nail it all down for Oblamer.

 

[RosieS]

Errr...in case you hadn't noticed, Sen. Leahy is not and never has been a member of the Obama Administration. The pledge was for the most transparent Administration in American history.

Administration.

Dictionary.com | Find the Meanings and Definitions of Words at Dictionary.com

Regards from Rosie

 

[occupied]

This crap 100% hearsay and yet everyone here is freaked the fuck out.

 

[Oddball]

Errr...in case you hadn't noticed, Sen. Leahy is not and never has been a member of the Obama Administration. The pledge was for the most transparent Administration in American history.

Administration.

Dictionary.com | Find the Meanings and Definitions of Words at Dictionary.com

Regards from Rosie

But Leahy has always been a police state fascist....And whatever he manages to stuff into this or that bill -most likely some sort of "emergency" no doubt- you can rest assured that your dear leader Boiking will sign it without batting an eye.

 

[occupied]

Hmm..., Didn't the Democrats led by Pelosi and Reid do the same for ObamaCare? They concocted the atrocity behind closed doors then told us they had to pass it before we could see it. This is a repeat performance of the Democratic Party. Same old methods.

"Obamacare" had been on file with the heritage foundation for twenty years, seems like they had plenty of time to familiarize themselves with it since it had been introduced by the republicans during the Clinton administration.

 

[RoadVirus]

Hmm..., Didn't the Democrats led by Pelosi and Reid do the same for ObamaCare? They concocted the atrocity behind closed doors then told us they had to pass it before we could see it. This is a repeat performance of the Democratic Party. Same old methods.

Yep...it's just like the Obamacare fiasco. Do all the dickering behind closed doors, not allowing anyone else to see what's going on until it's too fucking late.

 

[Dot Com]

Errr...in case you hadn't noticed, Sen. Leahy is not and never has been a member of the Obama Administration. The pledge was for the most transparent Administration in American history.

Administration.

Dictionary.com | Find the Meanings and Definitions of Words at Dictionary.com

Regards from Rosie

But Leahy has always been a police state fascist....And whatever he manages to stuff into this or that bill -most likely some sort of "emergency" no doubt- you can rest assured that your dear leader Boiking will sign it without batting an eye.

link?

BTW- I'm overjoyed that you people have another rw spambot to replace the ones who ran for the hills after the election

 

[GoneBezerk]

Leaky Leahy.....keeping a secret???

Oh it's his secret so he isn't telling the NY Times. Now if it's Top Secret info regarding us spying on UBL....he tells the NY Times so that UBL would quit using his cell phone being tracked.

 

[Oddball]

Errr...in case you hadn't noticed, Sen. Leahy is not and never has been a member of the Obama Administration. The pledge was for the most transparent Administration in American history.

Administration.

Dictionary.com | Find the Meanings and Definitions of Words at Dictionary.com

Regards from Rosie

But Leahy has always been a police state fascist....And whatever he manages to stuff into this or that bill -most likely some sort of "emergency" no doubt- you can rest assured that your dear leader Boiking will sign it without batting an eye.

link?

BTW- I'm overjoyed that you people have another rw spambot to replace the ones who ran for the hills after the election

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-5...les-his-warrantless-e-mail-surveillance-bill/

He was one of the police state fascists out front-and-center rationalizing the original 98-1 Senate vote for the USAPATRIOT Act.

Leahy his a totalitarian cocksucker, who'd be fine funding the KGB if he had the chance.

 

[Wehrwolfen]

Hmm..., Didn't the Democrats led by Pelosi and Reid do the same for ObamaCare? They concocted the atrocity behind closed doors then told us they had to pass it before we could see it. This is a repeat performance of the Democratic Party. Same old methods.

"Obamacare" had been on file with the heritage foundation for twenty years, seems like they had plenty of time to familiarize themselves with it since it had been introduced by the republicans during the Clinton administration.

Can you supply fact along with that lie? Smart money says The Apollo Alliance not the Hertiage Foundation was the source of ObamaCare as follows:

Revealed for first time: Sordid origins of Obamacare legislation traced to Soros group, marketed by slew of radicals.​

October 27, 2011


NEW YORK — A book released this week documents for the first time the radical origins of President Obama’s healthcare law, revealing the principal author of the foundation for the legislation while tracing the law itself to a group funded by George Soros.

“Red Army: The radical network that must be defeated to save America” also finds the founders of the controversial Apollo Alliance, run by a slew of radicals, helped craft the marketing campaign behind the healthcare initiative.

The new book, by authors Aaron Klein and Brfenda J. Elliott, purports to expose the radical socialist network that seized political power in Washington over decades, shaped Obama’s presidential agenda and threatens the very future of the U.S.

On Obamacare, “Red Army” documents how the legislation, deliberately masked by moderate, populist rhetoric, was carefully crafted and perfected over the course of decades and is a direct product of laborious work by a coalition of radical groups and activists, many with socialist designs.

Those activists seek to “reform” the U.S. healthcare industry, which accounts for a significant portion of the U.S. capitalist enterprise.

“Red Army” reveals the principal author of the foundation for Obamacare is third generation progressive academic Jacob S. Hacker, a Yale professor who is an expert on the politics of U.S. health and social policy.

Hacker is author of Health Care for America, the centerpiece of the George Soros–funded Economic Policy Institute’s Agenda for Shared Prosperity. “Red Army” finds Hacker’s proposal for so-called guaranteed, affordable healthcare for all Americans is the foundation for Obama’s healthcare plan.

Hacker’s plan had its origins in the professor’s multiple other major policy papers on healthcare, including a 2001 plan for the Covering America project.

In 2003, Hacker first devised a public health insurance program called “Medicare Plus,” which would offer coverage to all legal residents not otherwise covered by Medicare or employer-sponsored insurance. Employers would be required to either provide a minimum level of coverage to their workers or pay a payroll tax.

That plan was the basis for the U.S. National Healthcare Insurance Act, which was first introduced in February 2, 2005, in the House by Representative John Conyers. That act was sponsored by several other congressmen, all members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

“Red Army” documents how the Progressive Caucus was founded by the Democrat Socialists of America. The book charges the caucus works as a Marxist-socialist bloc in congress to introduce progressive legislation with socialist intent.

Chavez imaging guru, extremists

“Red Army” documents how a little-known marketing outfit called the Herndon Alliance helped to market Obamacare, even provided suggestions on which words supporters should use the promote the bill.

Acceptable words include “quality affordable health care”; “American solutions”; “giving security and peace of mind”; “fair rules”; “government as watchdog”; “smart investments, investing in the future”; and “affordable health plans.”

Unacceptable words include “universal health care”; “Canadian style health care”; “Medicare for All”; “regulations”; “free”; “government or public health care”; and “wellness.”

“Red Army” found the research component of the Herndon Alliance was provided by Celinda Lake, who teamed up with a marketing research firm, American Environics. AE uses social-values surveys to gauge public opinion.

Lake herself worked for a number of leftist institutions and unions, including the AFL-CIO and the SEIU. She also serves on the board of directors of the Progressive Congress Action Fund alongside Robert Borosage, whose Healthcare for America Now anticipated spending $42 million in its final push for passage of Obamacare.

AE was founded in 2004 by a team of American strategists and Canadian researchers. In April 2005, current AE managing partners Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger started AE’s American branch. One year before, Shellengerger did imaging for Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.

Nordhaus and Shellenberger cofounded the Apollo Alliance sometime around 2002 and were two
of its original national board members.

“Red Army” exposes how Apollo helped draft not only the president’s green jobs programs, but also the $787 billion economic stimulus bill and other proposed new energy legislation.

Apollo is led by a slew of radicals,including Van Jones, Jeff Jones, who heads Apollo’s New York branch and is a former top leader of the Weatherman terrorist organization, and Joel Rogers, a founder of the socialist New Party. Obama’s controversial former “green” jobs czar, Van Jones, sits on Apollo’s board.

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Revealed for first time: Sordid origins of Obamacare legislation traced to Soros group, marketed by slew of radicals. « Klein Online

 

[Wehrwolfen]

People are making the claim that Senator Leahy is not in the Obama administration. However we all know that he's a Democrat and will follow party line. As it is he votes along party lines in any case and does as he's told. Who can ever forget Leaky Leahy?

 

[Dot Com]

People are making the claim that Senator Leahy is not in the Obama administration. However we all know that he's a Democrat and will follow party line. As it is he votes along party lines in any case and does as he's told. Who can ever forget Leaky Leahy?

ummm..... maybe because he isn't? Please list his cabinet title. You're not even a merkin are you? As long as we're on the subject, which Repubs didn't jump on W's Cowboy Diplomacy bandwagon?