An appeals court ruled the NSA's bulk collection was illegal. Rand Paul prevented the controversially named Patriot Act from being renewed, even if it was replaced a couple days later by the equally contentiously named "USA Freedom Act".
Mission accomplished? Not so fast:
The Obama administration has asked a secret surveillance court to ignore a federal court that found bulk surveillance illegal and to once again grant the National Security Agency the power to collect the phone records of millions of Americans for six months. The legal request, filed nearly four hours after Barack Obama vowed to sign a new law banning precisely the bulk collection he asks the secret court to approve, also suggests that the administration may not necessarily comply with any potential court order demanding that the collection stop.
Maybe some branches of the government are more equal than others?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @01:04AM
Push Uwe Boll story through! It's hilarious.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @01:29AM
Nobody seems to fucking care about your fucking Uwe Boll story. I guess you shouldn't have fucking submitted it then. Fucking idiot.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by looorg on Wednesday June 10 2015, @01:40AM
This explains why the whole NSA - Snowden - scandal is just going to blow over. It's more interesting to see a German director go crazy on youtube and drop the f-bomb ... oh look kittens ...