Republicans are playing Democrats like a fiddle

[suffragette]

187. Like these Democrats, three of whom I voted for and who represent me?

4 lawmakers from Wash. twice voted against FISA


http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021149079_nsadelegationxml.html



WASHINGTON — Four Democratic members of Washington’s congressional delegation have repeatedly voted against authorizing the kind of vast surveillance of electronic communications the National Security Agency conducted with cooperation from Microsoft, Google and other Internet companies.

The lawmakers — Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, and Reps. Rick Larsen of Everett and Jim McDermott of Seattle — were concerned that emails, chats and other communications by Americans would get swept into a trove of intelligence gathered on foreigners. Among other issues, they also objected to giving Internet companies blanket immunity from turning over data obtained without warrants.

That unease prompted the four to vote against expansion of the post-Watergate Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in 2008 and again in 2012. Congress passed the measures both times.


I voted for all except Larsen. He's not in my district, but I agree with him on this issue, too. And I am glad that Murray, Cantwell and McDermott provide the representation they do here.

They do not provide bow and rosin. Wish that was the same for all Democrats.