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on Thursday November 19 2015, @01:43PM
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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.
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In Wake of Paris Attacks, Legislation Aims to Extend NSA Program
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Sir Finkus on Thursday November 19 2015, @05:07PM
They have had these powers for years and haven't prevented jack shit. The argument that they can't tell us about all the terror ops that they stop because then the bad guys would know that they are watching is bullshit. EVERYONE knows by now. So show us the proof or fuck off.
Have you spoken to anybody outside of the tech sector about this? Most of the people I've talked to think it's great that the government is "protecting us" by reading our emails and texts and that Snowden is a Russian spy.
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