[Infowarrior] - HPSCI chair lying to Congress about crypto backdoors

[Richard Forno]

House Intel Boss, Rep. Devin Nunes, Lying To Congress About Attempt To Stop Encryption Backdoors

There are some in Congress who apparently have no problem deceiving both their colleagues and the American public in the pursuit of making Americans less safe and putting our country, economy and infrastructure at risk. This time, it's House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Devin Nunes, along with Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, who chairs the NSA subcommittee. They've been sending around a letter that blatantly misrepresents a proposal designed to better protect Americans' privacy and security.

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This is no way to legislate. To blatantly mislead their Congressional colleagues in order to protect programs that harm Americans' privacy and security is a pretty cowardly approach to handling these issues. It's fine to debate the relative merits (or lack of merits) of the Section 702 program or other surveillance techniques, but flat out lying to colleagues to block an amendment that they've overwhelmingly supported for the past two years just seems... dishonest and sleazy.


https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160615/10302834720/house-intel-boss-rep-devin-nunes-lying-to-congress-about-attempt-to-stop-encryption-backdoors.shtml


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