Sunday, August 4, 2013

The sneaky last-minute rewrite of the 2005 Patriot Act that opened the NSA’s call records floodgates

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The sneaky last-minute rewrite of the 2005 Patriot Act that opened the NSA’s call records floodgates
Posted By: MrFusion [Send E-Mail]
Date: Sunday, 4-Aug-2013 18:57:23

The transparency of inch-thick lead, the integrity of a three-card monte team - that is the Obama Administration and their lackeys in Congress:
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The sneaky switch that set the stage for the NSA’s call records program
The wording of Section 215 of the Patriot Act was modified at the last minute in 2005.

by Julian Sanchez - Aug 4 2013

Defenders of the National Security Agency’s controversial call records program, which vacuums up Americans’ phone logs in bulk, like to remind us that the Patriot Act power to collect “business records” has been ratified by large majorities in Congress. Yet a compromise sharply limiting that authority, strongly endorsed by then-Senator Barack Obama, was unanimously approved by the Senate way back in 2005—until a sneaky last-minute change turned the limits on their head.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/the-sneaky-switch-that-set-the-stage-for-the-nsas-call-records-program/

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