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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?
Original Submission
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @09:58AM
A lot of your points are well made, but some are just stupid.
Increased troops in Afghanistan? So what? Unless we as a country decide to pull everyone (including the CIA) out, I'd rather have more troops there than less. You must have meant that we're still fighting there. The number of troops is irrelevant.
And I'm so sick of hearing "drone" every five minutes. Saying the drone program was designed to kill innocent people is hyperbolic bullshit. Bombs kill everyone in the area you drop them in. That doesn't change when a drone is involved, and the drone program has been more accurate than most manned bombing missions. (And explosives are always used in war. Get used to it.)
What you should be griping about is that we're fighting a war over the Afghan border into a supposedly neutral country, although the fact that their government is giving us the thumbs up behind their back takes a lot of the force out any complaint.
"he apparently likes it when years after a war ends, random people get body parts blown off" Could you descend any further into hyperbole? Yes, the US arms manufacturers own everyone in DC, and will continue to sell illegal weapons to other nations even when we stop our troops from using them.
Decided not to prosecute the torturers. Duh. No president ever prosecutes the previous administration, which they'd have to do if they were serious. But yeah, it sucks.
As for your last paragraph, fuck you for adding yourself to the asshole count with another unnecessary flame.