ghost [soylentnews.org] writes:
An appeals court ruled the NSA's bulk collection was illegal. Rand Paul prevented the offensively misnamed Patriot Act from being renewed (replaced a couple days later by the equally offensively misnamed "USA Freedom Act"). Mission accomplished? Not so fast -- "
The Obama administration has asked [theguardian.com] 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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