Posted on 12/05/2015 4:58:08 PM PST by springwater13
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government’s ability to review and analyze five years’ worth of telephone records for the married couple blamed in the deadly shootings in California lapsed just four days earlier when the National Security Agency’s controversial mass surveillance program was formally shut down.
Under a court order, those historical calling records at the NSA are now off-limits to agents running the FBI terrorism investigation even with a warrant.
How F’en convenient!!!!
Very appropriate gif!
Effectively, the NSA has those phone conversations but they are mixed with those of everybody else. That metadata makes it practical to search that bulk data the NSA already has in something less than infinite time. Else it is a needle in a haystack. So the "compromise" is to put the keys to finding the specific data back in private hands to be obtainable by court order.
Exactly. This metadata crap would be after the fact anyway and to get it they would have to collect data on 200 million Americans first. Screw them.
If they did their jobs they would get a warrant and get it all before an attack not just collect everything every single person does to use after an attack.
Two words too long.
Put a few roadblocks between the Feds and ordinary citizens’ data, and maybe the Feds will finally get off their butts and start looking at actual red flags.
Wow, that has CIA written all over it.
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