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posted by n1 on Wednesday June 10 2015, @12:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the dont-like-the-rules?-change-the-game dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @03:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @03:21AM (#194357)

    And only dipshits who think the president is some kind of fucking king that can enact whatever the fuck he wants whenever he wants go around bitching about how he didn't do everything he said he would.

    You're a moron. The president has the power to veto. The president also has the power (as a human being) to make statements against mass surveillance, and they have a good chance of getting their voice heard, given their position. Instead, he has come out in support of mass surveillance multiple times, just like most of his other politician buddies on both 'sides'.

    Here's what I said: "The real about-face is that he won't veto that garbage, or fulfill most of the promises he made before being elected." Now, tell me where I said that the president has absolute power or some other such nonsense. I didn't; that's just a straw man. I was just pointing out that Obama, like a grand majority of politicians, is just a corrupt lying scumbag.

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