[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8935]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY AND SNOOPING ON AMERICA

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the NSA is out of control. It seizes 
massive amounts of data on Americans without their consent, without 
their knowledge. This action violates the Fourth Amendment and the 
PATRIOT Act.
  The USA FREEDOM Act is supposed to halt these literally unwarranted 
intrusions. The bill, in which I am a cosponsor, passed the Judiciary 
Committee unanimously.
  However, this bill that deals with secret surveillance and mischief 
by the NSA was recently changed at the Rules Committee. These changes 
appear to allow multiple interpretations as to what the NSA can and 
cannot do. The bill now confuses what it intended to make clear. It 
seems we are back where we started.
  The NSA has shown it will misinterpret the law in a manner most 
favorable to the seizure by the NSA, seizure of information without a 
warrant.
  These new changes, unfortunately, may not adequately solve the 
problems of spying, snooping, and surveillance by the NSA on Americans.
  And that's just the way it is.

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