They compared a general who authorized mass shootings of protesters and sweeping roundups of dissident voices to George Washington.
Through a series of legal contortions, the Obama administration has argued that Congress, since 9/11, intended to implicitly authorize mass surveillance.
In an earlier version of the USA Freedom Act, Massie offered an amendment that would have reformed Section 702 of the FISA Amendments of 2008, which has been used to authorize mass collection of email and phone records.
Amnesty International asserts that the FAA and FISA authorizes the mass surveillance that Amnesty International and other organizations seek to protect against and that the executive branch has not offered any reading of the statute that would indicate otherwise.
When President Ahmet Necdet Sezer twice refused to sign a decree authorizing the mass dismissal of government employees this summer, General Kivrikoglu stepped in with the thinly veiled demand that Parliament pass a law allowing the purge.
The Australian government has authorized a mass cull of feral cats, to the dismay of celebrities including French actor Brigitte Bardot and British singer Morrissey, but no such intervention is planned in the US.
They issued a blockade, and later, authorized a mass arrest of López and his fellows, although the group would eventually be acquitted.
Nonetheless, every artist here (the list also includes Jonathan Meese, Urs Fischer, and Peter Fischli and David Weiss) has used the medium in some capacity, though the idea of Mike Kelley or Sarah Lucas mastering their pottery skills is about as alien to their image as that of Picasso authorizing a mass-produced coffee mug.
In a surprise development, May admitted to members of parliament when unveiling the bill that her government and previous ones have been authorizing warrants for mass data collection since 2001, under different bits of legislation buried in various existing laws.
Comey's downfall, said Weiner (who is not related to Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin's estranged husband), was the same independent streak that made progressives such fans of his when he stood up to President Bush in refusing to re-authorize a secret mass surveillance program.
