Comment by leptons
3 hours ago
>The current situation is a result of a nearly unanimous Washington consensus regarding this issue. Not one party vs another.
That's nonsense and the voting record proves you wrong.
Please link to any privacy related vote that hurts the public where "both sides" voted for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act
The senate vote for the patriot act was 98 to 1.
Pretty hilarious that you have to reach back 25 years for one iffy example that happened right after we had the largest terrorist attack in the history of the earth. It was absolutely a knee-jerk reaction, and wasn't the norm, it's very much the exception.
Please cite something from the last 5 or 10 years. I couldn't find anything recent to support your claim.