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Of the Bay-Area congress people I know (Eshoo, Lofgren, Honda, Speier, Pelosi), only one rejected limits on NSA. Pelosi.

Nancy Pelosi, representative of San Francisco, voted in favor of unlimited NSA wiretaps for all of your phone and email traffic.

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Pelosi also happened to serve as the ranking member the House Intelligence Committee. The Intelligence Oversight Act of 1980 explicitly requires that the president keep congressional intelligence committees fully and currently informed of all intelligence activities, which means that Pelosi likely has seen more classified/NSA information than any other House member. She is also from perhaps the most liberal district in America.

Yeah it's like asking the kid with his hand in the cookie jar to sign onto a bill calling for the lid to be put back on.

Well I certainly won't be voting for her in 2014. I feel like she really let me down. Same thing happened with Obama when he voted to re-new the Patriot Act.

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