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NSA Spying Wins Another Rubber Stamp

Posted by Soulskill on from the once-more-unto-the-privacy-breach dept.

schwit1 sends this report from the National Journal: A federal court has again renewed an order allowing the National Security Agency to continue its bulk collection of Americans' phone records, a decision that comes more than a year after President Obama pledged to end the controversial program. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved this week a government request to keep the NSA's mass surveillance of U.S. phone metadata operating until June 1, coinciding with when the legal authority for the program is set to expire in Congress. The extension is the fifth of its kind since Obama said he would effectively end the Snowden-exposed program as it currently exists during a major policy speech in January 2014. Obama and senior administration officials have repeatedly insisted that they will not act alone to end the program without Congress.

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  1. He will only act alone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    - to block oil pipeline construction
    - to import millions of new immigrants to compete with you for jobs
    - to have the IRS harass his political opponents
    - to spy on the press
    - to send troops to Iraq
    - to postpone nearly every legal deadline in Obamacare
    - to approve the Comcast -Time Warner merger
    - to impose new taxes on your internet service in the name of net neutrality

    But when he's using the NSA to spy on you, he blames Congress.

  2. Re:Cool... so now what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Vote for bigger government. The government is spying on you? Make it bigger and more powerful! Give it more money! Put it in charge of more things! That's the only answer most Slashdotters have.