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NSA Metadata Collection Gets 90-Day Extension

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-can-trust-us-for-90-more-days dept.

schwit1 sends word that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has authorized a 90-day extension to the NSA's ability to collect bulk metadata about U.S. citizens' phone calls. In April, the House of Representatives passed a bill to limit the NSA's collection of metadata, but the Senate has been working on their version of the bill since then without yet voting on it. Because of this, and the alleged importance of continuing intelligence operations, the government sought a 90-day reauthorization of the current program. The court agreed. Senator Patrick Leahy said this clearly demonstrates the need to get this legislation passed. "We cannot wait any longer, and we cannot defer action on this important issue until the next Congress. This announcement underscores, once again, that it is time for Congress to enact meaningful reforms to protect individual privacy.

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  1. Fucking Government doesn't care about US by Nyder · · Score: 4, Funny

    I mean, seriously, wtf is the problem here. This is against the constitution. You know, the laws you the government is supposed to be holding. In fact, you are being called on it, Congress said Fuck you on this shit, the Senate is being slower on it, so that means it's okay to continue violating our rights for 90 more days?

    Fuck you and fuck no!

    I guess for the next 90 days, American citizens should ignore Federal Laws. I mean, if they want to play this way, we should play back.

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  2. OMG, THE TERRORISTS WILL WIN!!!!!! by Required+Snark · · Score: 3, Funny
    It's critical that the constitution of the US remain invalid for another 90 days because if the NSA doesn't have their anal probes in the asses of every person in the world then

    the terrorist will win and Osama Bin Laden will return from the grave and institute Sharia law and take away our bacon cheese burgers and beer and NFL/NBA/MLB and get rid of all the booze like prohibition and make everyone bow to Mecca five times a day and keep girls from walking around in shorts because you know THEY HATE OUR FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    1. Re:OMG, THE TERRORISTS WILL WIN!!!!!! by TheP4st · · Score: 3, Funny

      take away our bacon cheese burgers and beer and NFL/NBA/MLB and get rid of all the booze like prohibition and make everyone bow to Mecca five times a day and keep girls from walking around in shorts because you know THEY HATE OUR FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      You got it all wrong it never were about hate of our freedom, it is a genuine concern about the obesity problem the US is having and they figure dietary restrictions, exercise 5 times a day greatly would improve the issue, and fat asses in too tiny shorts... Well, most of us rather not see that.

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  3. The U2 virus... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    has been more effective than any I've seen before. It shutdown our network several times since Friday. We use VoIP so it also shutdown our phone lines. It just show how fragile our infrastructure is when one band that hasn't been relevant in thirty years can destroy the Internet in this way. We don't need someone as powerful as the NSA to shutdown the Internet. U2 did it just fine with their attack.