NSA surveillance program extended by court, intelligence officials say
A secret court on Friday extended the National Security Agency’s authority to collect and store the phone records of tens of millions of American cellphone customers, the top U.S. intelligence official confirmed.
The decision by the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court amounted to a routine renewal of the legal framework for one of the government’s most sensitive and controversial data-collection programs. But it was the first time U.S. officials have publicly acknowledged the step.
That order lasted 90 days and was set to expire Friday. The statement by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not mention Verizon or any other telecommunications company by name, only that the government was seeking the “renewal of the authority to collect telephony metadata in bulk, and that the Court renewed that authority.”
So they are still scooping up your phone records and who knows what else, but now they are announcing it. That should certainly make us all sleep better.
And besides, Kos says we shouldn't give a shit about it.
I don't give a shit (132+ / 0-)
Seriously, I just don't care.
NSA spying is bad! So is stop and frisk. So is splitting up families by deporting children to countries they've never been to and don't speak the language. So is harassing American muslims.
Government overreach is bad. But to act like having the government track who you call is the height of government abuse is a very white privileged view of the privacy issue.
But as for Greenwald and Snowden? Seriously, I don't give two shits.
by kos on Fri Jul 19, 2013 at 12:40:39 PM PDT