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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2015, @09:37PM
Pedantic note: there were two people who did mass shootings at Ft. Hood: Nidal Hasan in 2009 and Ivan Lopez in 2014.
The FSB warned the US government that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was dangerous, and the FBI and CIA investigated him, but his name was entered as "Tsarnayev" in a database. Source:
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/boston-bombing-anniversary/russia-warned-u-s-about-tsarnaev-spelling-issue-let-him-n60836 [nbcnews.com]