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, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 19 2015, @02:45PM
But, but, but - you're so NEGATIVE!! Just because shit hasn't worked for the past fourteen years doesn't mean anything. We just need MOAR SHITE, and it'll start working! Forget about that old gray haired man's definition of insanity, MOAR SHIT!