
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday warned tech companies that Republicans “will not forget” if they turn over phone and email records to the committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol building, The Hill reported.
A letter from McCarthy was in response to a request Monday from the committee sent to 35 telephone, email and social media companies to preserve records that it said could be relevant to its investigation.
McCarthy, a California Republican, said that if the companies comply with the request, it “would put every American with a phone or computer in the crosshairs of a surveillance state run by Democratic politicians.”
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Wasn’t Clinton also sent a request to preserve her e-mail son her private server, yet despite the request they were wiped out? But in that case the request went to the suspect herself (or her representative) – and the suspect herself was under different and much stricter disclosure and retention rules than the private citizen because of her government position. And she was already in violation by keeping a private server without permission and without even informing relevant authorities, so there was a strong basis for an investigation of a named individual. But in the current case, the whole thing is being done across the board – in other words a “fishing expedition” – against a host of private citizens, and would risk violation of privacy laws (to name one, The Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act of 2006 (H109-4709, Pub. L. 109–476). By their own admission they stated that “The Select Committee is at this point gathering facts, not alleging wrongdoing by any individual”.
McCarthy, a California Republican, said that if the companies comply with the request, it “would put every American with a phone or computer in the crosshairs of a surveillance state run by Democratic politicians.”
Quire ironic because this is exactly what the Democrats have always given as their reason for not using surveillance to prevent terror attacks
National Security surveillance was suppose to target non-citizens, and was supposed to mask the identity of any citizen caught by chance. But here the Democrats are targeting specifically citizens in a wide net – a net so wide it inclkudes legislators.