Senator uses clever response to bash the NSA using emojis
It's 2015, and sitting US senators now engage in policy discourse via emoji.
On Friday, the National Security Agency posted a tweet highlighting its role surveilling the internet for signs of foreign threats.
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- NSA/CSS (@NSAGov) July 17, 2015
Several hours later, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), a critic of the NSA who has repeatedly called for the end of the NSA's controversial bulk collection program, slammed the agency - also using emojis.
.@NSAGov ???????????????? #EndThisDragnet
- Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) July 17, 2015
Though privacy advocates succeeded in eliminating the controversial NSA program, there was a catch: The legislation that passed allows the NSA to "wind-down" its collection for the next several months. But by the time the bill passed both Houses, the program had already automatically ended.
Wyden condemned the agency for restarting the bulk-collection program.
"I see no reason for the Executive Branch to restart bulk collection, even for a few months," Wyden said in a statement last month, according to NBC. "This illegal dragnet surveillance violated Americans' rights for fourteen years without making our country any safer."
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