The government’s authority to sweep up millions of Americans’ phone records has mercifully expired, perhaps only to be replaced by the USA FREEDOM ACT, which would require the government to ask phone companies for a user’s data rather than vacuuming up all the records at once. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky deserves credit for blocking an extension of the PATRIOT ACT. It is strange to hear the Obama administration echoing much the same arguments as Karl Rove and Dick Cheney and demanding the renewal of the PATRIOT ACT to “keep America safe” and stop playing "national security Russian roulette." The CIA director’s, claim that these bulk collections of redundant data prevented terror attacks is completely false and should have been vigorously challenged. Did it prevent the Fort Hood, Boston Marathon or Underwear Bomber attacks? The US Intelligence Oversight Committee excoriated the NSA for its overreach and confirmed that its activities have been unlawful and an abysmal failure. Traditional FBI methods have thwarted several terror attacks where draconian data mining methods - searching for ‘a needle in a haystack’, should be tossed in the dustbin of history. Finally, Edward Snowden, displayed unusual courage exposing such abuses and deserves the profound gratitude of the American people.
Thursday, June 4, 2015
PATRIOT ACT 6-4-2015
4, June PATRIOT
ACT
The government’s authority to sweep up millions of Americans’ phone records has mercifully expired, perhaps only to be replaced by the USA FREEDOM ACT, which would require the government to ask phone companies for a user’s data rather than vacuuming up all the records at once. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky deserves credit for blocking an extension of the PATRIOT ACT. It is strange to hear the Obama administration echoing much the same arguments as Karl Rove and Dick Cheney and demanding the renewal of the PATRIOT ACT to “keep America safe” and stop playing "national security Russian roulette." The CIA director’s, claim that these bulk collections of redundant data prevented terror attacks is completely false and should have been vigorously challenged. Did it prevent the Fort Hood, Boston Marathon or Underwear Bomber attacks? The US Intelligence Oversight Committee excoriated the NSA for its overreach and confirmed that its activities have been unlawful and an abysmal failure. Traditional FBI methods have thwarted several terror attacks where draconian data mining methods - searching for ‘a needle in a haystack’, should be tossed in the dustbin of history. Finally, Edward Snowden, displayed unusual courage exposing such abuses and deserves the profound gratitude of the American people.
The government’s authority to sweep up millions of Americans’ phone records has mercifully expired, perhaps only to be replaced by the USA FREEDOM ACT, which would require the government to ask phone companies for a user’s data rather than vacuuming up all the records at once. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky deserves credit for blocking an extension of the PATRIOT ACT. It is strange to hear the Obama administration echoing much the same arguments as Karl Rove and Dick Cheney and demanding the renewal of the PATRIOT ACT to “keep America safe” and stop playing "national security Russian roulette." The CIA director’s, claim that these bulk collections of redundant data prevented terror attacks is completely false and should have been vigorously challenged. Did it prevent the Fort Hood, Boston Marathon or Underwear Bomber attacks? The US Intelligence Oversight Committee excoriated the NSA for its overreach and confirmed that its activities have been unlawful and an abysmal failure. Traditional FBI methods have thwarted several terror attacks where draconian data mining methods - searching for ‘a needle in a haystack’, should be tossed in the dustbin of history. Finally, Edward Snowden, displayed unusual courage exposing such abuses and deserves the profound gratitude of the American people.
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