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Obama Asks Congress To Renew 'Patriot Act' Snooping
mi writes: President Obama has asked the Senate to renew key Patriot Act provisions before their expiration on May 31. This includes surveillance powers that let the government collect Americans' phone records. Obama said, "It's necessary to keep the American people safe and secure." The call came despite recent revelations that the FBI is unable to name a single terror case in which the snooping provisions were of much help. "Obama noted that the controversial bulk phone collections program, which was exposed by National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, is reformed in the House bill, which does away with it over six months and instead gives phone companies the responsibility of maintaining phone records that the government can search." Obama criticized the Senate for not acting on that legislation, saying they have necessitated a renewal of the Patriot Act provisions.
Oh for crying out loud, he said "yes we can". Nobody said anything about actually DOING anything!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Explain Joe Biden.
HORSE MANURE is a backronym, though I don't remember what it means
How Ordinary Rabble States Etymology with Mangled Acronyms Naming Universal Random Epithets?
"It was garbage, but it had been cooked by an expert. Oh, yes. You had to admire the way perfectly innocent words were mugged, ravished, stripped of all true meaning and decency, and then sent to walk the gutter for [Justin Amash], although “synergistically” had probably been a whore from the start." - T Pratchett