Paul Ryan is Aggressively Lobbying to Pass “Frankenstein” CISA Spy Bill Through Congress

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So who could possibly be worse than John Boehner? Paul Ryan, of course, which is precisely why he was chosen to lead the RINOs in the stinking cesspool known as the U.S. House of Representatives.

So what is Paul Ryan up to now? Well, he’s trying as hard as possible to pass a grotesque spy bill known as CISA, which stands for the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act. Congress has been relentlessly trying to pass similar legislation for years, under constantly changing names.

Now here’s the latest attempt,  with Paul Ryan leading the charge. The Guardian reports:

US librarians have joined with a host of civil liberties groups to condemn a cybersecurity bill now passing through Congress they claim will be both “unhelpful” and “dangerous to Americans’ civil liberties”.

The American Library Association, the world’s oldest and largest library affiliation, has joined with 18 other groups including Fight for the Future, Demand Progress and FreedomWorks to issue a letter to the White House and Congress urging lawmakers to oppose the final version of a bill they claim will dramatically expand government surveillance while failing to tackle cyber-attacks.

Republican House speaker Paul Ryan has been leading the charge to push through legislation and reconcile two bills, the Protecting Cyber Networks Act (PCNA) and the National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement with the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (Cisa), a controversial bill that passed a Senate vote in October.

The speed with which Ryan is trying to push through a compromise has worried privacy activists. “We’ve just learned that the Intelligence Committees are trying to pull a fast one,” Nathan White, senior legislative manager at digital rights advocate Access, said in a recent email to supporters. “They’ve been negotiating in secret and came up with a Frankenstein bill – that has some of the worst parts from both the House and the Senate versions.”

According to the letter’s signatories, the proposed “conference” legislation would:

    • Create a loophole that would allow the president to remove the Department of Homeland Security, a civilian agency, as the lead government entity managing information sharing.
    • Reduce privacy protections for Americans’ personal information.
    • Overexpand the term “cyber threat” to facilitate the prosecution of crimes unrelated to cybersecurity.
    • Expand already broad liability protection for information disclosure.
    • Pre-empt state, local or tribal disclosure laws on any cyber-threat information shared by or with a state, tribal or local government.
    • Eliminate a directive to ensure data integrity.

“The final version of this bill is an insult to the public and puts all of us in greater danger of cyber-attacks and government surveillance,” said Evan Greer, campaign director of Fight for the Future, who organized the letter. “This was already a fundamentally flawed piece of legislation, and now even the meager privacy protections it provided have been gutted, exposing it for what it really is: a bill to dramatically expand abusive government spying.”

Your government at work. As usual, against you.

For related articles, see:

Meet CISA – Dianne Feinstein’s Latest Attack on Privacy, Civil Liberties and the Internet

Facebook Caught Secretly Lobbying for Privacy Destroying “Cyber Security” Bill

Business as Usual – Paul Ryan Pushes Through Multiple Wall Street Giveaways in the Highway Bill

Paul Ryan Hires Lobbyist Who Pushed for Obamacare and the Trans-Pacific Partnership as His Chief of Staff

Paul Ryan Channels Pelosi on the TPP – You Have to Pass Obamatrade to See What’s in Obamatrade

In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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3 thoughts on “Paul Ryan is Aggressively Lobbying to Pass “Frankenstein” CISA Spy Bill Through Congress”

  1. Ryan is Boehner without the ‘tan and the tears’. His buddy, Mike Rogers from Michigan, tried to get several cyber security bills through Congress, but failed to get the votes [CISPA, H.R. 3523]. I’m sure Mike McCaul, from Texas, has picked up the baton where Rogers left off. They DO NOT like truth being spoken on the internet, and have wanted to curtail it’s freedom for some time.

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