[credit: Cal Grondahl, Utah Standard Examiner]
Congressmen voted against an amendment to defund NSA's dragnet snooping operations, but the 12 vote margin was closer than US Person expected with both conservatives and liberals voting for the Amash admendment. Just how many more years the security state can be justified on the basis of "fighting terrorism" is anybody's guess. Predictably, the Current Occupant whose authoritarian policies on terror are essentialy a continuation of the Charlatan's minus "enhanced interrogation" lobbied against the amendment.
[credit: Gary Markstein, Copley News Service]
Wackydoodle axes: Why ain't you smiling, boy?