claim: "the legislation ... that senator mccain supports would provide the authority for the federal government to surveille american citizens in their own country without any suspicion whatsoever that they're engaging in discussions with terrorists or about criminal activity."
author: bob barr
evidence_1: dec 7, 2011 ... a bill passed by the senate last week would allow the military to detain ... to  detain without a trial any american citizen accused of being a terrorist, or of ...  citizens far from any battlefield can be executed by their own government.” ... but  they've also tested the boundaries of police authority when it comes to ...
evidence_2: the national defense authorization act (ndaa) for fiscal year 2012 is a united  states federal law which besides other provisions specifies the budget and  expenditures of the united states department of defense. the bill passed the  u.s. house on december 14, 2011, the u.s. senate on .... the law affords the  option to have u.s. citizens detained by the armed forces ...
evidence_3: jun 7, 2013 ... we're tracking–and contextualizing–the ongoing news surrounding edward ...  snowden discusses the u.s. government's monitoring of domestic and foreign ...  but i think they'll do what they can do send a message that people shouldn't do ...  also engage in illicit monitoring and surveillance of their citizens.
evidence_4: he has changed what john adams called “a government of laws and not of men”  ... democrats in congress have also endorsed an anti-constitutional agenda of  their own. ... these constitutional rights are not negotiable for any american. ....  we support repeal of federal restrictions on political parties in mccain-feingold, ...
evidence_5: may 23, 2013 ... in the 1980s, we lost americans to terrorism at our embassy in beirut; ... in mali,  we're providing military aid to french-led intervention to push ... threat to the  american people, and when there are no other governments ..... when i ran for  president the first time, john mccain supported ... i love my country.