A U.S. senator plans to introduce legislation that would delay the end of the bulk collection of phone metadata by the National Security Agency to Jan. 31, 2017, in the wake of security concerns after the terror attacks last Friday in Paris.
Senator Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, believes that the termination of the program, scheduled for month-end under the USA Freedom Act, "takes us from a constitutional, legal, and proven NSA collection architecture to an untested, hypothetical one that will be less effective."
The transition will happen in less than two weeks, at a time when the threat level for the U.S. is "incredibly high," he said Tuesday.
The obvious answer to doing something that doesn't work is to do more of that something.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday November 19 2015, @02:07PM
What that they say? Never let a good tragedy go to waste.
If the threat level is "high," I expect at least one good explosion in the USA in the next few weeks.
I mean, the threat level isn't just complete bullshit, right?
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Friday November 20 2015, @04:31AM
It's coming any second now. The threat level has only been "high" or higher since 9/11.