Obama to halt part of NSA phone program

Politico ^ | January 17, 2014 | Mike Allen

[John W]

A senior administration official tells POLITICO that President Barack Obama on Friday will announce the end of the National Security Agency’s telephone metadata program as it currently exists.

The official said Obama “will order a transition that will end the Section 215 telephone metadata program as it currently exists, and move to a program that preserves the needed capabilities without the government holding this data.”

[Cyber Liberty]

Heh. Yeah right. Sure. You betcha.

[Chode]

yeah, right...

[liberalh8ter]

Create the problem, solve the problem, rinse and repeat......

[Common Sense 101]

The jug-eared moron says it... so it must be true, right?

[Darksheare]

“We’re not going to spy on you anymore by spying on you some more and shuffling data retention to someone else.”

[bert]

If the program is obsessionally mandated, the president can’t end it.

[bert]

If the program is congressional mandated, the president can’t end it.

[cripplecreek]

From what I’m hearing he’s supposedly going to make them stop storing data and ask the phone companies and service providers to store it instead.

Its obvious crap anyway. The NSA is still building massive data storage centers and will likely force the phone companies to store the records in the NSA sites.

[Girlene]

They’re still going to vacuum up all the data, though. Wrong approach.

[rarestia]

President Barack Obama on Friday will announce the end of the National Security Agency’s telephone metadata program as it currently exists.

"We're going to fundamentally transform America."

They say what they mean, it's just usually in code.

[Chode]

100%

[Doogle]

...the clown has done nothing but lie since he became known...NOW that he’s been called out for the 500th time we’re suppose to believe this s***
This lying bass turd wouldn’t know the truth if it got between him and Reggie at one of their most intimate moments and sang “Can’t Get Over You, So Why Don’t You Get Under Me?”

[SoFloFreeper]

"If you like your telephone privacy, you can keep your telephone privacy. Period. End of story."

[ThunderSleeps]

Right. We believe this because both obammy the liar-in-chief and the NSA have given us soooo many reasons to trust and believe them... {snort}

[Cyber Liberty]

That was the GIF I was thinking about....

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Though I’m not sure if this is accurate, I gather his idea is that the NSA will still collect everybody’s information all the time, but once they collect it, it will be archived by a different federal agency. Which implies that since it is such a huge amount of data, a new federal agency will have to be created to do this.

Which is like rubbing horse manure into a gaping wound, for making a bad situation worse.

[bikerman]

Right! they will stop spying on red dial phones only./s

[FlingWingFlyer]

You mean to tell me that their are still idiots in this country who actually believe anything Obama says. Wow. Talk about some “slow” people.