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The bill about to pass through Congress is one small step for NASA, and one giant leap for the surveillance state.
In the newest version of the "omnibus" spending bill, the yearly legislation that passes enormous federal budget guidelines, NASA has been allocated $19.3 billion, a whole $1.27 billion more than the Obama administration asked for. This will allow NASA to fund its missions, ferry people between Earth and the International Space Station and continue to sever its dependence on Russian funds by shoring up its commercial crew program.
For people who love science and technology, it would be a resounding victory — but Congress is determined to break those people's hearts and poison their punchbowl. Legislators slipped CISA, a privacy bill that's been fought and rejected by advocates and legislators for years, into that same budget bill.
