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<P>The National Security Agency’s headquarters in Ft. Meade, Md., will go
dark if a cohort of Maryland lawmakers has its way.</P>
<P>Eight Republicans in the 141-member Maryland House of Delegates
introduced legislation Thursday that would deny the electronic spy agency
“material support, participation or assistance in any form” from the
state, its political subdivisions or companies with state contracts.</P>
<P>The bill would deprive NSA facilities water and electricity carried
over public utilities, ban the use of NSA-derived evidence in state courts
and prevent state universities from partnering with the NSA on
research.</P>
<P>State or local officials ignoring the NSA sanctions would be
fired, local governments refusing to comply would lose state grant funds
and companies would be forever barred from state contracts.</P>
<P>The bill was filed as emergency legislation and requires support of
three-fifths of delegates to pass. It was referred to the chamber’s
judiciary committee.</P>
<P>NSA facilities in Maryland use a massive amount of water and
electricity, the supply of which might be jeopardized by the
legislation.</P>
<P>The agency signed a contract with Howard County, Md., for water to cool
a computer center under construction at Fort Meade, The Washington
Post <A
title="Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/howard-and-nsa-reach-deal-to-cool-computer-center-with-countys-treated-wastewater/2014/01/02/4c83ab44-7270-11e3-8def-a33011492df2_story.html"
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/howard-and-nsa-reach-deal-to-cool-computer-center-with-countys-treated-wastewater/2014/01/02/4c83ab44-7270-11e3-8def-a33011492df2_story.html">reported</A> Jan.
2. The deal reportedly involves up to 5 million gallons of water a day for
nearly $2 million a year. As of 2006 the agency headquarters purchased as
much electricity from Baltimore Gas & Electric as the city of
Annapolis, The Baltimore Sun <A
title="Link: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2006-08-06/news/0608060158_1_agency-power-surges-nsa"
href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2006-08-06/news/0608060158_1_agency-power-surges-nsa">reported</A>.</P>
<P>The proposal is the latest in a series of state bills aiming to cut off
the NSA one jurisdiction at a time for allegedly ignoring the Fourth
Amendment with its dragnet collection of phone and Internet records.</P>
<P>The legislative wave is spearheaded by the Tenth Amendment Center,
which along with the Bill of Rights Defense Committee launched the OffNow
coalition last year seeking to cut off water to the NSA’s just-built Utah
Data Center.</P>
<P>[<B><A
title="Link: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/01/06/rand-pauls-nsa-lawsuit-may-be-latched-to-already-successful-challenge"
href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/01/06/rand-pauls-nsa-lawsuit-may-be-latched-to-already-successful-challenge">READ: </A></B><A
title="Link: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/01/06/rand-pauls-nsa-lawsuit-may-be-latched-to-already-successful-challenge"
href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/01/06/rand-pauls-nsa-lawsuit-may-be-latched-to-already-successful-challenge">Rand
Paul's NSA Lawsuit May Be Heard Alongside Klayman's</A>]</P>
<P>Legislation hasn’t yet been introduced in Utah, but lawmakers in
Arizona, California, Tennessee, Washington and other states have
filed bills based on model legislation from the Tenth Amendment
Center.</P>
<P>Several of those bills were introduced with bipartisan sponsorship. The
Arizona bill has been the most successful to date, winning 4-2
approval by the state Senate Government and Environment Committee on Feb.
3.</P></DIV></DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>