I wonder if theyāll just get/have already gotten a FISA warrant for surveiling the world. Problem solved!
The operative word being ālegallyā
Did I read the changes incorrectly? They can still do everything they did before, they just wont have to pay to store the data. Phone subscribers will pay that cost. It sounds like the NSA budget proofed the surveillance so it can continue without fear of budget cuts taking it down. They also get to keep everything they have so far.
As I understand it, they couldnāt explicitly legally do so before, they just sort of squinted at the guidelines and said, āYeah, we choose to believe it says we canā.
I wouldnāt advise taking off the tinfoil hat just yet.
But what do I know? Everyone around me is just collateral damage by virtue of me not being American.
We need the PATRIOT act, for how else are we going to punish Saddam for the 9/11 attacks? Do you just want him to get away with murder?
Thatās right citizen, we totally arenāt completely ignoring the law, secure in the knowledge that weāll never be held accountable, anymore. No-sirry-bob. Weāve turned over a new leaf!
Add a provision to the new bill to the effect of āEvery American citizen must club to death 12 baby seals using their own surgically extracted femurā or something?
Or āThe last amendment is rubber, this amendment is glue, the bat-mobile lost a wheel and landed in some spewā?
Or āItās backwards day, so that means you do want to kiss satan on the buttā, maybe ānyeh nyehā or āwahhhhhhhhhhhā.
Perhaps Iām giving them too much credit?
But will they actually stop? In all the news coverage Iāve seen no one has mentioned what will happen to the program, the people it employs and the data it has already collected.
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