Patriot Act Up For Renewal, Nobody Notices

Patriot Act Up For Renewal, Nobody Notices

"When the Patriot Act was first signed in 2001, it was billed as a temporary measure required because of the extreme circumstances created by the terrorist threat. The fear from its opponents was that executive power, once given, is seldom relinquished. Now the Examiner reports that on January 5th, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) introduced a bill to add yet another year to the soon-to-be-expiring Patriot Act, extending it until February, 2012, with passage likely to happen after little debate or contention. If passed, this would be the second time the Obama administration has punted on campaign promises to roll back excessive surveillance measures allowed under the act. Last year's extension passed under the heading of the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act. 'Given the very limited number of days Congress has in session before the current deadline, and the fact that the bill's Republican sponsor is only seeking another year, I think it's safe to read this as signaling an agreement across the aisle to put the issue off yet again,' writes Julian Sanchez."

Interesting......I had no idea it had an expiration date.

I guess the reason being is that we all be destroyed in 2012 anyway.

I wager it gets extended.

Janet Incompetano won't let go of the powah!

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I wager it gets extended.

Janet Incompetano won't let go of the powah!

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Well, the bill to extend it was introduced by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI).
But yeah, nobody wants to look 'soft on terror', I bet.
On the flipside, by the whole silence surrounding this, it seems nobody wants to assume paternity of this bastard child.

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I wager it gets extended.

Janet Incompetano won't let go of the powah!

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Republicans will have the chance to put an end to it next year. Will they?

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The Patriot Act substantially expires in May 2015.


When the new Congress takes up its reauthorization, mere months after convening, members will be forced to decide what to do about Section 215 of the law, the provision cited by the NSA to justify logging most every telephone call made by Americans.


With Republicans controlling both the Senate and the House, the GOP faces a stark choice. Is a party that purports to favor constitutional conservatism and limited government going to ratify mass surveillance that makes a mockery of the Fourth Amendment? Will Mitch McConnell endorse a policy wherein the Obama administration logs and stores every telephone number dialed or received by Roger Ailes of Fox News, Wayne LaPierre of the NRA, the Koch brothers, the head of every pro-life organization in America, and every member of the Tea Party? Is the GOP House going to sacrifice the privacy of all its constituents to NSA spying that embodies the generalized warrants so abhorrent to the founders?

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...rivacy/382488/

Senate Republicans block bill pushing for NSA overhaul


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-conten...be-800x430.jpg

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/s...e+Raw+Story%29

otherwise, the Old Lesbian From SC says ISIS will come to kill us all

Parts of the Patriot Act set to expire on June 1.

The US Congress should let them die: the electronic dragnet hasn't prevented a single attack and has proven to be of marginal utility for investigators.

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The predictable drumbeat of dire warnings about what will happen if portions of the Patriot Act – the post-9/11 law being used to conduct controversial NSA dragnet surveillance – are allowed to expire on June 1 has already begun.


James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, issued what is likely to be the first of many vague warnings from the intelligence community on Monday. Faced with the expiration of the part of the Patriot Act that allows the bulk collection of information about Americans' phone calls, Clapper brought out the favored hypothetical of the surveillance hawk: An unspecified attack will occur, which would have been prevented if Congress had reauthorized the dragnet collection of Americans' phone calls.


"If that tool is taken away from us... and some untoward incident happens that could have been thwarted if we had had it," Clapper said, "I hope that everyone involved in that decision assumes the responsibility."


There's just one problem with this particular bit of emotional blackmail, however. The pesky, rather inconvenient fact is that the government's mass surveillance programs operating under Section 215 of the Patriot Act have never stopped an act of terrorism. That is not the opinion of the NSA's most ardent critics, but rather the findings of the president's own review board and the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. This program has had over a decade to prove its value, and yet there is no evidence that it has helped identify a terrorism suspect or "made a concrete different in the outcome of a counterterrorism investigation."

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https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-s...e-terrorist-at

repeal bill introduced:

http://pocan.house.gov/sites/pocan.h...ct%20114th.pdf

McConnell to fast track a bill that preserves the PATRIOT Act without changes:

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The bill, cosponsored by Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, would extend the expiring Section 215 of the Patriot Act until December 31, 2020, thus preserving the legal justification the NSA relies on to collect Americans' phone metadata—the numbers, time-stamps, and duration of a call, but not its content.

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http://www.nationaljournal.com/congr...pying-20150422

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Originally Posted by The ACLU

Absent far-reaching reform, we think that Section 215 should sunset.

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http://www.nationaljournal.com/congr...-bill-20150422

I've written my three congress people.

Officials Knew the Legal Basis for an NSA Spying Program Was Bullshit

A formerly-secret report on the NSA’s warrantless surveillance was published yesterday evening. It’s a detailed look into the history of the Stellarwind surveillance program—one that makes it clear that government officials repeatedly questioned its legality and efficacy.

Stellarwind was the code name for the President’s Surveillance Program, a wide-reaching information-gathering effort started by then-President George W. Bush after 9/11.

The report was written by inspectors general from five different government agencies in 2009, but kept classified (aside from a heavily truncated version) until last night, when it was released following a Freedom of Information Act request from the New York Times.

Though some parts remain redacted, the report provides damning evidence that the Stellarwind program had a soggy, flawed legal basis, that the intense secrecy surrounding the program made it less effective, and that it’s still hard to pinpoint if snooping on millions of Americans actually stopped any terrorist plots.

The report highlights, for instance, that government officials knew that Justice Department lawyer John C. Yoo’s memo on the legal basis of the program was flat-out wrong.

Yoo justified the lack of warrants by citing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s exception that permits warrantless national-security wiretaps during wartime. The (big, fat, awful, and obvious) problem with Yoo’s justification: That exception is only for the first fifteen days of war.

Yoo’s replacement, Patrick Philbin, quickly realized that Stellarwind’s legal justification was crap, and the report details how FBI General Counsel Valerie Caproni, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel Jack Goldsmith, and Justice Department lawyer James A. Baker all questioned its legality.

Eventually, officials revised and narrowed the scope of Stellarwinds, but it’s remarkable that a program so obviously founded under dubious legal circumstances went on for almost a decade.

You can read the entire report online, thanks to the New York Times.

http://gizmodo.com/declassified-repo...+%28Gizmodo%29

tl;dr: The bill that Joe Biden wrote in 1995 and Dianne Feinstein co-sponsored multiple times actually turned out to be illegal.

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I've written my three congress people.

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https://act.eff.org/action/tell-cong...reform-the-nsa

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Originally Posted by Yonivore

I wager it gets extended.

Janet Incompetano won't let go of the powah!

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More like Mitch McConnell. Nice try!

Patriot Act Faces Revisions Backed by Both Parties

On Thursday, a bill that would overhaul the Patriot Act and curtail the so-called metadata surveillance exposed by Edward J. Snowden was overwhelmingly passed by the House Judiciary Committee and was heading to almost certain passage in that chamber this month.

An identical bill in the Senate — introduced with the support of five Republicans — is gaining support over the objection of Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, who is facing the prospect of his first policy defeat since ascending this year to majority leader.

The push for reform is the strongest demonstration yet of a decade-long shift from a singular focus on national security at the expense of civil liberties to a new balance in the post-Snowden era.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/01...ties.html?_r=0

I doubt the tea baggers will support ANYTHING, so it this charade of "we Congresscritters give a shit about privacy" will probably not become law. If it were enacted, the Deep State would laugh its ass off and keep on snooping as before, and worse.

Patriot Act extension and the USA Freedom Act fail to pass US Senate, all provisions of the former are set to expire at midnight on Sunday:

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Section 215, best known as the authority behind the NSA’s most infamous domestic spying program—the very first of Edward Snowden’s leaked revelations—will no longer be used to collect Americans' phone records in bulk. That specific program is by all accounts doomed: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) told the National Security Agency to start winding the program down by last Friday, and for the first time, the agency finally didn’t bother to submit a legal request to reauthorize the program for another 90-day period.

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http://www.dailydot.com/politics/pat...pire-what-now/

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Patriot Act extension and the USA Freedom Act fail to pass US Senate, all provisions of the former are set to expire at midnight on Sunday:

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/pat...pire-what-now/

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Bitch McConnell proving the Repugs can govern! :lol

so much for the Deep State controlling everything that happens. political momentum has swung against domestic surveillance. that won't stop it completely, but it's nice to know DOJ is already scaling back.

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so much for the Deep State controlling everything that happens. political momentum has swung against domestic surveillance. that won't stop it completely, but it's nice to know DOJ is already scaling back.

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the Deep State is, will be UNTOUCHED by whatever TF Congress does.

the vacuuming of EVERYTHING will continue, and will also be given secretly to local police forces, etc, etc "without attribution". CIA has the MASSIVE data vault in UTAH just waiting for terabytes of yout data.

But somehow, the surveillance/security state just can't catch Wall St criminals, wealthy/BigCorp tax evaders, or do "predictive policing" on the financial sector.

http://media.gotraffic.net/images/iY...w/v1/-1x-1.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7qy-4CBBZo

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NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker pressed Obama administration press secretary Josh Earnest three times for a specific example of a time when the NSA's bulk collection metadata program was used as part of an investigation which prevented a terrorist attack, and three times Earnest refused.

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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...an_attack.html

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Obama said in his address that these "tools are not controversial," even though there are currently several lawsuits, including several by the American Civil Liberties Union, attempting to end unwarranted bulk data collection completely.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=172&v=BLlKojPit0o

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ob...ticle/2565290#

:stfu

From somewhere else:

In order to keep America safe, does anyone know where I can send my emails and phone records to until this whole misunderstanding is resolved? I'd hate for a terrorist to get me because my information was private.

:lol

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Allowing the Patriot Act provisions to expire, even just for a few days, would mean that Congress will essentially be reenacting law, not reauthorizing it, which could put the Freedom Act in legally murky territory.


A Justice Department memo sent to lawmakers this month made reference to potential legal challenges under such a scenario.


"Legislation enacted after midnight on Sunday, May 31, 2015, that seeks to reauthorize the authorities by amending the dates [of the provisions] we believe, would be effective in making the authorities operative again, but may expose the government to some litigation risk in the event of legal challenge," the memo reads. "To the extent Congress would want to make its intent even clearer, however, we believe that could be done with relatively simple language; it would not require re-enacting the lapsed provisions in their entirety."


A McConnell aide said the lapse was not a concern in that regard, however, as congressional intent with the Freedom Act is clear.


But any tweaks to the Freedom Act would require another vote in the House, which would further delay the restoration of the authorities that the intelligence community warns are vital to national security. The House passed the Freedom Act with overwhelming bipartisan support, but the tea-party influence in the lower chamber could make a vote on restoring the Patriot Act a much tougher sell.


Meanwhile, the Senate standoff continues to have implications for the 2016 presidential race far beyond Paul's campaign. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush appeared on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday morning to again defend the NSA program—a position that several other GOP contenders have loudly struck in recent weeks.

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http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/...n-215-20150531

Patriot Act expired, thanks to hero Edward Snowden

It's all irrelevant anyway, as if anyone at NSA cares if what they do is legal or not.

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The Senate let three provisions of the Patriot Act expire: Section 215, the section the government uses to collect phone and other business records in bulk, the “Lone Wolf provision,” and the “roving wiretap” provision. Section 215 now—at least temporarily—reverts to its pre-Patriot Act form, which doesn’t permit any collection of financial or communications records, and requires the Government to provide “specific and articulable facts” supporting a reason to believe that the target is an agent of a foreign power.

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http://gizmodo.com/section-215-of-th...now-1708121211

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It's all irrelevant anyway, as if anyone at NSA cares if what they do is legal or not.

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Congress attempting to rein in the NSA is newsworthy and politically significant, even if it doesn't work. It plants a flag in lawless policy.

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Patriot Act expired, thanks to hero Edward Snowden

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but for Snowden, we'd not have known the dimensions of the authority to pry into the private lives of innocent Americans authorized by the Patriot Act. Not sure I'd not call him a hero, but he has done his country a service at no small cost to himself.

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Congress attempting to rein in the NSA is newsworthy and politically significant, even if it doesn't work. It plants a flag in lawless policy.

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It's all grandstanding and charade.

The NSA's Few Good Men manning the ramparts don't give a fuck about the law. NSA/CIA/FBI are unstoppable.

Even fucking ancestry companies give DNA evidence to the police without a warrant.

Silicon Valley tech companies, supposedly protecting Human-Americans' against the surveillance brown shirts, sell browsing data for many $Bs per year.

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Silicon Valley tech companies, supposedly protecting Human-Americans' against the surveillance brown shirts, sell browsing data for many $Bs per year.

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the elephant has to be eaten one bite at a time. what companies do with personal information and geolocation data is another fight for another day. one well worth fighting, imo.

this was a baby step, but an important one.

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the elephant has to be eaten one bite at a time. what companies do with personal information and geolocation data is another fight for another day. one well worth fighting, imo.

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The only meaningful change in regs is change that includes FUNDING for enforcement, and serious punishment.

We've seen Clapper outright LIE to Congress, and then claim he forgot or didn't know, oops, no punishment. Congress bought his lies, or didn't but let Clapper off.

We'll see what Congress does now with Patriot Act. I'm sure it will be nothing but window dressing with "business as usual" behind the curtains.

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No, thanks to hero Rand Paul. But for Paul, the weenie senate would have renewed it.

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No, thanks to hero Rand Paul. But for Paul, the weenie senate would have renewed it.

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:lol Rand Paul wouldn't know or do shit about Patriot Act without Snowden blowing it up.

Wombat Hair is a loser, and he will lose big IF he's the candidate (he has no mega-donor, yet), and he will probably LOSE in the primaries.

Rand Paul! :lol

Bitch McConnell tactic of leaving the Patriot vote to Sunday, thinking people would panic into voting failed, proving yet again the Repugs CAN'T GOVERN

Ayn Rand Paul did nothing but delay the vote 48 hours. :lol

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but for Snowden, we'd not have known the dimensions of the authority to pry into the private lives of innocent Americans authorized by the Patriot Act. Not sure I'd not call him a hero, but he has done his country a service at no small cost to himself.

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Oh brother

Google collects more info about you than the NSA

:lmao

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Google collects more info about you than the NSA

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Debatable... plus what Google gathers is fairly well known (which gives you the option to use tools to avoid such collection) and you can request Google to remove some or all of that collected information.

Not to mention you can have a public court of law review such collection...

Don't really care if Rand did this just to score political points. It's something that brings the topic to the forefront and I think that's important.

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Don't really care if Rand did this just to score political points. It's something that brings the topic to the forefront and I think that's important.

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Snowden already did that. Grandstanding fraud Paul are jokes

Rand Paul is getting way too much credit for killing 3 Patriot Act powers

But the media's focus on Paul has led to the Kentucky Republican getting way too much credit for the ultimate outcome of this week's surveillance fight.

The fight is likely to result in the passage of the USA Freedom Act — which seeks to place stricter limits on NSA surveillance but which some privacy advocates say doesn't go far enough — later this week.

Paul has opposed this legislation. And if Paul hadn't engaged in his theatrics, the most likely outcome would have been exactly the same.

The only difference is that the USA Freedom Act might have passed a few days earlier.

If the USA Freedom Act passes in the Senate, credit (or blame) should go to the 57 senators — mostly Democrats — who supported the legislation a week ago, and to the 54 senators — again mostly Democrats — who voted down a straight renewal of the Patriot Act during the same Friday-night session.

Rand Paul's filibuster was wildly successful at getting Rand Paul's name in headlines. But it ultimately had little effect on the outcome of the legislative fight.

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/1/8700111/...ul-patriot-act

Same sort of bullshit from that other tea bagging grandstanding faker, Krazy Kruz the Canadian Anchor Baby

“I think he’s nestled in with a very large bunch of very radical people – from the left to the right,” said Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, the president pro tempore. “I don’t know if he feels comfortable being with all those leftists who hate the PATRIOT Act. But he has a right to do what he’s doing.”

lol @ "radicals". It's pretty jarring that these neocons are well aware that a "very large bunch" of people, "from the left to the right" are fed up with getting their 4th amendment rights trampled on by these old hawks and they don't give a shit about it.

Is the reason why people won't give Rand Paul any credit is because he's not a spoke person for baby killers and gayness?

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:lol Rand Paul wouldn't know or do shit about Patriot Act without Snowden blowing it up.

Wombat Hair is a loser, and he will lose big IF he's the candidate (he has no mega-donor, yet), and he will probably LOSE in the primaries.

Rand Paul! :lol

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Snowden was inspired by Ron Paul to become a whistleblower.

Well the word "temporary" is relative... in the lifespan of the Earth, a few years certainly is "temporary"...

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Is the reason why people won't give Rand Paul any credit is because he's not a spoke person for baby killers and gayness?

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Pretty much. If Elizabeth Warren had done something like this boutons would be down on his knees hailing her as the 2nd son of god

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Pretty much. If Elizabeth Warren had done something like this boutons would be down on his knees hailing her as the 2nd son of god

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I see you down on your knees fellatin Jacob. Cleanup when he's done.

US Freedom Act passed... say hello to the new boss, same as the old boss...

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US Freedom Act passed... say hello to the new boss, same as the old boss...

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BigGov and BigLib being fucked and unfuckable as usual.

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US Freedom Act passed... say hello to the new boss, same as the old boss...

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What the fuck is Hilary going to do now to top Uncle Tom and Baby Bush?

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US Freedom Act passed... say hello to the new boss, same as the old boss...

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Enforcement? Funding for enforcement? Penalties?

Or just take the surveillance state's word that they are complying?

All old data is not destroyed?

Its all a fucking charade

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Enforcement? Funding for enforcement? Penalties?

Or just take the surveillance state's word that they are complying?

All old data is not destroyed?

Its all a fucking charade

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Thanks, Joe Biden and Dianne Feinstein!

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnib...sm_Act_of_1995

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What the fuck is Hilary going to do now to top Uncle Tom and Baby Bush?

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Probably invade Cuba, just for the fuck of it

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The Obama administration intends to use part of a law banning the bulk collection of US phone records to temporarily restart the bulk collection of US phone records.


US officials confirmed to the Guardian that in the coming days they will ask a secret surveillance court to revive the program – deemed illegal by a federal appeals court – all in the name of “transitioning” the domestic surveillance effort to the telephone companies that generate the so-called “call detail records” the government seeks to access.


The unconventional and unexpected legal circumstance depends on a section of the USA Freedom Act, which Obama signed into law on Tuesday, that provides a six-month grace period to prepare the surveillance and legal bureaucracies for a world in which the National Security Agency is no longer the repository of bulk US phone metadata.


During that time, the act’s ban on bulk collection will not yet take effect.


But the NSA stopped its 14-year-old collection of US phone records at 8pm ET on Sunday, when provisions of the Patriot Act that authorized it until that point lapsed. The government will argue it needs to restart the program in order to end it.

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...nce-fisa-court

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Certain provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act are scheduled to sunset in 2017, including Section 702, one of the main legal authorities the government relies on to engage in mass surveillance of people’s online communications. We’re going to campaign for the reform—or expiration—of Section 702 in the next year and a half, using the resources, communities, networks, and many of the strategies we developed in the battle around the USA Freedom Act.


We’ve also been speaking out publicly against Executive Order 12333, an executive order that the NSA relies on for most of its digital surveillance of people worldwide. We’ll be launching a big campaign to attack this Executive Order, putting pressure on President Obama. Our goal is to get the president to address the biggest problems with EO 12333 with a new executive order before he leaves office.

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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/0...ere-we-go-here

New Snowden Documents Reveal Secret Memos Expanding Spying

The Obama administration has stepped up the NSA’s warrantless surveillance program on U.S. soil to search for signs of hacking.

Without public notice or debate, the Obama administration has expanded the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international Internet traffic to search for evidence of malicious computer hacking, according to classified NSA documents.

In mid-2012, Justice Department lawyers wrote two secret memos permitting the spy agency to begin hunting on Internet cables, without a warrant and on American soil, for data linked to computer intrusions originating abroad — including traffic that flows to suspicious Internet addresses or contains malware, the documents show.

The Justice Department allowed the agency to monitor only addresses and “cybersignatures” — patterns associated with computer intrusions — that it could tie to foreign governments. But the documents also note that the NSA sought to target hackers even when it could not establish any links to foreign powers.

The disclosures, based on documents provided by Edward J. Snowden, the former NSA contractor, and shared with the New York Times and ProPublica, come at a time of unprecedented cyberattacks on American financial institutions, businesses and government agencies, but also of greater scrutiny of secret legal justifications for broader government surveillance.

While the Senate passed legislation this week limiting some of the NSA’s authority, it involved provisions in the U.S.A. Patriot Act and did not apply to the warrantless wiretapping program.

https://www.propublica.org/article/n...ent=&utm_name=

Repugs cut $1B from IRS budget. IRS couldn't follow the advisories to upgrade its systems against hacking due to lack of funds. IRS got hacked.

Elections (that Repugs win) have (negative) consequences. Fucking up govt at all levels is the overarching Repug strategy.

Jesse Ventura: ​Hooray for Rand Paul!

http://www.ora.tv/offthegrid/article...oray-rand-paul

Study: Surveillance will cost US tech sector more than $35B by 2016

A new study says that the U.S. tech industry is likely to lose more than $35 billion from foreign customers by 2016 because of concerns over government surveillance.
“In short, foreign customers are shunning U.S. companies,” the authors of a new study from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation write.

“The U.S. government’s failure to reform many of the NSA’s surveillance programs has damaged the competitiveness of the U.S. tech sector and cost it a portion of the global market share,” they said.The think tank’s report found that the cost to the tech sector associated with ongoing concerns over surveillance programs run out of the U.S. was likely to “far exceed” $35 billion by 2016, an earlier estimate set by the group.

The group said that lawmakers must enact additional reforms to surveillance policy if they wish to help the tech sector regain the trust of foreign customers. That includes opposing “backdoors,” which allow law enforcement to access otherwise encrypted data, and signing off on trade agreements, including the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership, that “ban digital protectionism.”

The study’s authors found that the revelations about broad U.S. surveillance programs acted as a justification for foreign policymakers to enact protectionist policies aimed at aiding their own domestic technology sectors.

http://thehill.com/policy/technology...er-35b-by-2016

anti-competitive and expensive. creates distrust and lost opportunity costs for US biz.

NSA Has Reverse-Engineered Popular Consumer Anti-Virus Software In Order To Track Users


The NSA and its British counterpart the GCHQ have put extensive effort into hacking popular security software products to “track users and infiltrate networks,” according to the latest round of Snowden docs unearthed today by The Intercept.

Cybersecurity companies, including the Moscow-headquartered Kaspersky Lab, were targeted by government agencies to gain intelligence of the latest exploits. Details of the security software’s inner workings were deciphered by agencies through a process called software reverse engineering (SRE), which allowed them to analyze and exploit the software suites.

A top-secret warrant renewal request issued by the GCHQ details the motivations behind infiltrating the products of such anti-virus companies.

“Personal security products such as the Russian anti-virus software Kaspersky continue to pose a challenge to GCHQ’s CNE [Computer Network Exploitation] capability,” the warrant stated, “and SRE is essential in order to be able to exploit such software and to prevent detection of our activities.”

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/22/nsa...8TechCrunch%29