Why National-Security Republicans Lost the Patriot Act Debate
Andrew C. McCarthy
May 23, 2015
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418807/why-national-security-republicans-lost-patriot-act-debate-andrew-c-mccarthy
The NSA doesn’t even know your name.
But you probably don’t know that. It is amazing how little the public has learned from the debate the national-security Right has lost — not is losing but has lost — over the National Security Agency’s “metadata” program.
The information the NSA has collected in bulk from telecommunication-service providers does not include the names of telephone subscribers. They don’t know who you are. It does not include addresses. They don’t know where you are.
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“... The information the NSA has collected in bulk from telecommunication-service providers does not include the names of telephone subscribers. They don’t know who you are. It does not include addresses. They don’t know where you are.”
Absolute Bull Crap!
It has already been demonstrated that such info CAN be retrieved from metadata. Saying that the NSA has no ability to do this is the height of naivete.