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In the face of cross-party hostility, Theresa May, the Home Secretary, has dropped plans to give the intelligence agencies full access to computer users' internet browsing history.
"This is the most important surveillance reform bill since 1978, and its passage is an indication that Americans are no longer willing to give the intelligence agencies a blank check.
Amid the foment of World War I, their 1916 manifesto praised cinema's ability "to give the intelligence a prodigious sense of simultaneity and omnipresence" — the very month that "Intolerance" opened in New York.
And the massive troves of metadata collected under a wide variety of authorities – with varying degrees of oversight – give the intelligence community enormous flexibility in targeting those surveillance technologies.
But the London mayor, Boris Johnson, said it was time to give the intelligence agencies new powers, as long as warrants to listen to the contents of phone calls were provided by a judicial figure and not a minister.
Against that backdrop, senior members of Congress who have been critical of the C.I.A. in recent weeks went out of their way on Sunday to give the intelligence agencies what they called their due.
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This means finally giving the intelligence director greater authority.
Obama himself told ABC News on Monday that the White House merely gives the intelligence community "policy direction": I'm the final user of all the intelligence that they gather.
Time and again, the American public discovers, after the fact, that whatever free rein it gives the intelligence agencies is abused.
It gives the intelligence community the ability to conduct surveillance on overseas targets without requiring an individual court order for each target.
Instead of exposing and informing these programs, however, Congress seems much more intent on giving the intelligence agencies even more power.
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