McConnell Introduces Bill To Extend NSA Surveillance

jriding sends word that the majority leader of the U.S. Senate has introduced a bill that would extend the surveillance provisions of the Patriot Act until 2020: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced a bill Tuesday night to extend through 2020 a controversial surveillance authority under the Patriot Act. The move comes as a bipartisan group of lawmakers in both chambers is preparing legislation to scale back the government's spying powers under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. It puts McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the bill’s co-sponsor, squarely on the side of advocates of the National Security Agency’s continued ability to collect millions of Americans’ phone records each day in the hunt for clues of terrorist activity.

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[theArtificial]

Are you really trying to justify being irritatingly pedantic in order to somehow enhance the discussion? All it has accomplished is this timewasting derail.

How am I being pedantic? Let's recap shall we? Some guy online uses a phrase that he's never used before and manages to mangle it up. Someone calls him on it. Someone else doesn't like that someone else calls people out on things. I reply to this person to the effect that I suspect it's a phrase heard before and that using phrases improperly makes you look foolish. You reply to me with a response that I'm pedantic. If you'll notice I'm not the one who brought this up so your suggestion is better directed elsewhere.

Keeping that in mind, maybe it's just better to let this minor meaningless slip-up go?

And yet, you're commenting on it, too. By your logic does this make you pedantic or just self loathing? :)