How Nancy Pelosi Saved The NSA Surveillance Program -- John Hudson, The Cable/Foreign Policy
The obituary of Rep. Justin Amash's amendment to claw back the sweeping powers of the National Security Agency has largely been written as a victory for the White House and NSA chief Keith Alexander, who lobbied the Hill aggressively in the days and hours ahead of Wednesday's shockingly close vote. But Hill sources say most of the credit for the amendment's defeat goes to someone else: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. It's an odd turn, considering that Pelosi has been, on many occasions, a vocal surveillance critic.
Ahead of the razor-thin 205-217 vote, which if passed would have severely limited the NSA's ability to collect data on Americans' telephone records, Pelosi privately and aggressively lobbied wayward Democrats to torpedo the amendment, a Democratic committee aid with knowledge of the deliberations tells The Cable.
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My Comment: Her attempts to now play both sides on this issue may work on some people .... but on others it will not. When it came to "crunch time" .... she voted with the administration/NSA/intelligence community/etc. to maintain the surveillance powers of the NSA. That is her legacy .... anything she does afterwards is just politics.
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