"Leaky" Sen. Patrick Leahy has always found the Constitution Inconvenient - Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants

Leaky Leahy

Leahy in the past found confidential documents that aid and abetted our enemies, that were also be inconvenient to his agenda, could easily be leaked to like minded press outlets from "un-named sources." Hence, he became widely know as Leaky Leahy. He just had to show how powerful and important he was. Actually, he's more of the gossipy old bag bag of the Senate who refuses to keep secrets, wants to read our mail and email and slanders his adversaries. He seems to fit in very well in most the left side and half the right side of the Senate Chamber at that. m/r

Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants | Politics and Law - CNET News

by Declan McCullagh

 November 20, 2012 

A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans' e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law.

CNET has learned that Patrick Leahy, the influential Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, has dramatically reshaped his legislation in response to law enforcement concerns. A vote on his bill, which now authorizes warrantless access to Americans' e-mail, is scheduled for next week.

Leahy's rewritten bill would allow more than 22 agencies -- including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Communications Commission -- to access Americans' e-mail, Google Docs files, Facebook wall posts, and Twitter direct messages without a search warrant. It also would give the FBI and Homeland Security more authority, in some circumstances, to gain full access to Internet accounts without notifying either the owner or a judge.

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