Why No Executive Order To Stop NSA Metadata Collection?

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 6, 2014 @08:00AM from the if-the-president-does-it-it's-legal dept.

An anonymous reader links to this editorial at Ars Technica which argues that "As chief executive, Obama has the power to reform the NSA on his own with the stroke of a pen. By not putting this initiative into an executive order, he punted to Congress on an issue that affects the civil liberties of most anybody who picks up a phone. Every day Congress waits on the issue is another day Americans' calling records are being collected by the government without suspicion that any crime was committed. 'He does not need congressional approval for this,' said Mark Jaycoxx, an Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney."

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Re:Why would he? by BrookHarty · 2014-04-06 10:25 · Score: 1, Flamebait

>Obama is part of the system that created the problem in the first place.
Funny you can mention that now and get upvoted. If you mentioned that back during the first election it was "racist this, and racist that" you just dont want a black president! Then he got the Nobel peace prize, and few of us said, he didnt do anything to warrant it and was down voted.
Track record speaks volumes.