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: 2) by DrMag on Wednesday June 10 2015, @03:30PM
More so than you know; did anyone see this awful ad campaign run by a car dealership in Utah?
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For those who don't want to contribute to the site's traffic numbers: a crotchety old man with enormous ears who even talked about "having the lobes for business". Either someone was pulling a prank, or a manager never saw Star Trek.