The NSA stopped collecting bulk phone data, and nothing bad happened

Washington Examiner ^ | 03-06-19 | Dan King

[Steve1999]

Civil liberties activists have long argued that bulk collection of Americans’ phone records doesn’t make us any safer. Now, we’ve got pretty clear evidence that’s the case. Luke Murry, an adviser to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., told the Lawfare Podcast on Saturday that for the last six months the Trump administration “hasn’t actually been using” the phone record collection program authorized by the 2015 USA FREEDOM Act. He added that he’s unsure if the administration will ask Congress to reauthorize this program at the end of the year. If Murry is telling the truth about the administration’s non-use of the phone metadata collection program, then it’s even more obvious proof that such a program does more to damage civil liberties than it does to protect national security. Clearly, the administration shouldn’t ask Congress to reauthorize this program.

[mad_as_he$$]

Correction. They admit they stopped using one technique. What’s the new program and how does it work?

[tired&retired]

I think this is how Obummer got the blackmail info on Judge Roberts to get him to support Obamacare.

[taxcontrol]

the “new” program is requiring the carriers to maintain X log of meta data and provide the details upon request.

In other words, not an NSA server, but still avilable.

[Ransomed]

They probably just exchange the data they capture for all UK calls for the data the UK captures for all US calls. That way both governments can claim they don’t spy on their own citizens.

Freegards

[StolarStorm]

sure. Right. lol

[Yo-Yo]

This is the database that the Obama administration abused during the "Trump Collusion" investigation, prior to obtaining a FISA warrant against Carter Page.

[arthurus]

What NSA said doesn’t mean anything. The ability exists. It will be done.

[petro45acp]

shyaaaaaah.....monkeys.....

KYPD

[WKUHilltopper]

Liars. I don’t believe the NSA for one second.

[IC Ken]

I believe the NSA as much as I believe the FBI.

[gaijin]

“Is the NSA sping on the telephone calls of Americans..?””

“No.”

That was a lie.

You know how Clapper rationalized it, just yesterday..?

“I didn’t understand the question.”

[Jan_Sobieski]

If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, does it make a sound?

I call BS. Government surveillance is like taxes. Once it is in place, it never goes away. People just forget about it...

[bkopto]

If anyone believes the .fedgov has stopped its comprehensive spying on all of us, that person is a fool.

[Freedom56v2]

Is the NSA sping on the telephone calls of Americans..?””

“No.”

That was a lie.

You know how Clapper rationalized it, just yesterday..?

“I didn’t understand the question.”

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Heard this on radio this morning...Seriously?!

[gaijin]

Here is a 4 min clip where Clapper advances his claim that he didn’t understand the question “Are you spying on Americans?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5gnqopqm5U

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Translation we couldn’t get Trump so we’ve discontinued the program

[GOPJ]

The ‘intelligence bureaucracy’ is made up of a bunch of overpaid thugs who play cowboys and Indians with Russians for billions of dollars a year.

Cut the intelligence bureaucracy in half and use the saved money to create solutions to the problems they've found for years: cyber security, EMP protection, intellectual property protection, stopping Chinese spies from collecting University high-tech golden eggs.

DO SOMETHING THAT HELPS THE COUNTRY - NOT JUST YOUR DAMN INTELLIGENCE FIEFDOMS.

And tell thugs like Brennan, Clapper and Hayden to stop working against OUR duly elected President.

[Joe Boucher]

eschelon is omnipresent

[Delta 21]

Facebook picture/data archives, the twitterverse., Google, etc.....

Its all hiding in plain sight.