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| Protest Saturday at the Capitol Reflecting Pool over NSA surveillance |
| 2013-10-27 |
| When close to two thousand people marched to the Capitol Reflecting Pool Saturday afternoon to protest the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs, it was if the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street had clasped hands. “It’s very important that the American people be allowed to talk about what they want to talk about, with whom they want to talk about it, and not have the government paying attention to anything,” said David, a consultant with the Public Health Service who described himself as more Tea Party than Occupy. The rally was sponsored by Stop Watching Us, a coalition of groups as diverse as the American Civil Liberties Union and the conservative advocacy group FreedomWorks, was meant to build support for forthcoming legislation that would end the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of communications data under the Patriot Act. Reauthorized several times by Congress, the full scope of the programs were not known to the public until the leak of a secret surveillance court order by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. |
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