[originalbuckeye]

The first 4 years of Obama, everything bad was blamed on GWB. The NSA spying has been blamed on GWB. The authors of the Patriot Act have said this overwhelming surveillance was not what the Patriot Act intended. But of course, those who wrote the Patriot Act are Republicans so they will ALWAYS be blamed for everything bad in most of the Media. Amazing the WaPo has told the truth. But the Obamabots STILL will not hold their Messssssiah accountable.

[Vaduz]

But the Obamabots STILL will not hold their Messssssiah accountable.
However the rest of the country does he is now a lame duck.

[Diogenesis]

Outside of America, people understand.
Within the USA, the MSM delivers the KoolAid, nightly.

[faucetman]

YAWN........ What will come of this latest revelation?

..............NOTHING...............

[SamuraiScot]

To be explicit about the obvious, it looks as if this was done to gather information to influence the 2012 election.

Weren't re-election prospects looking especially bad in 2011?

[Palio di Siena]

The change THEY did believe in did US in.

[dagogo redux]

” . . . U.S. District Judge John D. Bates . . . . . . . . “

John D. Bates

[Innovative]

I guess it’s NOT “Bush’ fault” afterall...

[gaijin]

Back later

[ZULU]

We have a dictator and tyrant in the White House. Any Congressmen who don’t support impeachment need removal also.

[Timber Rattler]

Joel said that the change was intended to standardize retention periods across the agencies and that the more generous standard was “already in use” by another agency.

So which agency is that, Joel?

[lowbridge]

bump

[slowhandluke]

"But of course, those who wrote the Patriot Act are Republicans"

Passed by Republicans maybe, but the text of that Act had been sitting on the shelves for some time waiting for an appropriate crisis. It was written by the permanent bureaucracy, and vetted by both Clinton and Bush appointees in turn. It's just another clue as to the unity of thought of the national Republicans and Democrats.

[quimby]

That is why it is important to require a warrant before searching for Americans’ data, Udall said. “Our founders laid out a roadmap where Americans’ privacy rights are protected before their communications are seized or searched — not after the fact,” he said in a statement to The Post.

why only 2 dems cared about this ?

[Hoodat]

In addition, the court extended the length of time that the NSA is allowed to retain intercepted U.S. communications from five years to six years —

. . . which would carry it from that point through the 2016 election.

[little jeremiah]

Nully - are you around? I think I read you mention something about computer problems...

Nutjob list.

[VerySadAmerican]

Yet he’d still get re-elected today with just a little bit of fraud in four states. Most of his followers simply will not admit they were wrong. The rest don’t think they ARE wrong.

[Roses0508]

BUMP

[shego]

What had not been previously acknowledged is that the court in 2008 imposed an explicit ban -- at the government’s request -- on those kinds of searches, that officials in 2011 got the court to lift the bar and that the search authority has been used.

2008... 2008... who's that guy who was in charge in 2008, again...?

[butterdezillion]

April 20 and 22nd, 2011 was when the Obama regime requested the ban to be lifted.

The big thing in the news was Donald Trump saying Obama should release his birth certificate. April 22nd was the day that Obama requested a copy of his BC. That is what was on his mind at that time.

So yes, this was about the 2012 election.

And I wonder how many of Trump’s communications were looked at, and what role that had in the current fraud charges against him (by the NY AG?) This could be a very visible and illustrative example of what they intended - and did - with that “national security” information...

[Arthurio]