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 Freeman on Wednesday June 10 2015, @05:23PM
One Major Downside to "Obamacare" is that our University dropped the maximum hours a US Citizen can work as a Student Worker. Because otherwise they will have to pay for their healthcare. International Student Workers don't have the same restriction. Good for the international Student Worker, bad for the USA Student Worker. I am sure there a bunch of other "side effects" to this whole ACA junk. I did make out like a bandit though as my employer was forced to add my spouse to my insurance.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"