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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) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @10:40PM
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. Maybe your ignorance can be excused if you are a foreigner, but if not, then you are too fucking stupid to know that there are two other branches of government, and at least one of them is pretty fucking hostile to everything that comes out of his mouth. It isn't like he can waive some kind of fucking fairy wand and make all your fucking wishes happen.
Too bad you aren't one of those who did any research nor have any critical thinking skills.
Hmmm..... Then why did he promise to do that? Why hasn't he come out and stated exactly what the problems are with enacting meaningful reform, and name the name of the politicians which are obstructing his ability to run the Executive Branch?
Isn't it funny that the President has COMPLETE LATITUDE to direct the NSA to not ask the FISA court for the permission? More specifically, he could order the director of the NSA to stop such activity. And then, if Congress still wanted him to take that action they can write a law making such actions compulsory. (Unless, of course, you can cite a law which was passed which made such collections compulsory. Good luck.) But that would also then take Obama actually stand up and say, "Yep, the freedom of innocent Americans to not have their call data sucked up is more important than the intelligence value we get [or didn't get] from this program." It would also take his having the balls to admit that yes, even at the risk of another 9/11 our collective rights as Americans are more important. And he won't, of course.
But since we've traded in, "do the crime and do the time," for, "have your words misconstrued and be convicted of thought crimes," I doubt he'll grow that set.
Oh, and did you mean the Judicial branch is hostile to Obama? Because he did have two years where the Democrats had Presidency, Senate, and House. And a longer control of the Senate. And he used that ability to..... make the rich richer? Turn over control of healthcare to the insurance industry even more? So maybe you're the one who needs a recent history lesson along with a thorough mouth cleaning.