Posted on 08/15/2019 2:58:09 PM PDT by Theoria
The White House is seeking reauthorization of a law that lets the N.S.A. gain access to logs of Americans’ phone and text records — while acknowledging that the program has been indefinitely halted.
Breaking a long silence about a high-profile National Security Agency program that sifts records of Americans’ telephone calls and text messages in search of terrorists, the Trump administration on Thursday acknowledged for the first time that the system has been indefinitely shut down — but asked Congress to extend its legal basis anyway.
In a letter to Congress delivered on Thursday and obtained by The New York Times, the administration urged lawmakers to make permanent the legal authority for the National Security Agency to gain access to logs of Americans’ domestic communications, the USA Freedom Act. The law, enacted after the intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden revealed the existence of the program in 2013, is set to expire in December, but the Trump administration wants it made permanent.
The unclassified letter, signed on Wednesday by Dan Coats in one of his last acts as the director of National Intelligence, also conceded that the N.S.A. has indefinitely shut down that program after recurring technical difficulties repeatedly caused it to collect more records than it had legal authority to gather. That fact has previously been reported, but the administration had refused to officially confirm its status.
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No
Why?
Only reason I can think of is to counter the illegal efforts leftists are currently making to subvert and interfere in the 2020 election. Or to gain intel on leftist plans to stage another coup in 2020.
But the Trump Administration has no more constitutional authority to randomly easedrop on the American people than Obama did. That is WHY we were so mad at Obama. He broke the law. I like to think President Trump would not break the law like that.
I had to think about this for a minute but then it hit me.
He’s trolling again! :)
Hysterical Democrat pushback in 3, 2, 1
Did you ever have a phone call with someone who gets a red flag order?
Yellow flag for you.
I'd like to think that too.
I'd also like to think that Trump will win in 2020. But he won't. Unless drastic and decisive action is taken NOW against Social Media and the Rats.
Eavesdropping IS a low down trick. Maybe Trump really ought to outsource it to the Russians. He was blamed for it in 2016.
Maybe they assume that Apple and google already do ito us, so why should the government be left out of the fun
Was Dan Coats authorized by Trump to request this?
If he wasn’t I’m sure we will soon hear about it.
nonononononononononono
That certainly stirred up the nest of concern trolls...
Funny how folks will call the NYSlimes “fake news” and then go gaga over a NYSlimes tale.
I think many have been more brainwashed by the left’s pogrom than they are able to see or willing to admit.
These days, you could post a story saying that Trump is considering making heterosexuality a misdemeanor and we’d have 100 FReepers saying “Hell NO!” and fretting about it instead of considering the source and what reality has shown them.
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