Obama Asks Court To Make NSA Database Even Bigger

Obama Asks Court To Make NSA Database Even Bigger (ZeroHedge, Feb 26, 2014):

When a hypertotalitarian banana republic takes another turn for the gigasurreal, even Elon Musk is speechless.

In the most glaring example of how farcical idiocy has become the new normal, we will remind readers (especially those who do not follow us on twitter), of the following blurb from last night:

 

Sure enough, this attempt at comedy has just failed once more, as less than 24 hours later, it describes an increasingly surreal reality. Just out from the WSJ:

The Obama administration has asked a special court for approval to hold onto National Security Agency phone records for a longer period–an unintended consequence of lawsuits seeking to stop the phone-surveillance program.

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the Justice Department was considering such a move, which would end up expanding the controversial phone records database by not deleting older call records.

Under the current system, the database is purged of phone records more than five years old. The Justice Department, in a filing made public Wednesday, said it needs to hold onto the older records as evidence in lawsuits brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and others.

Under the proposal made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the older data would continue to be held, but NSA analysts would not be allowed to search it.

The gruesome irony of course is that after his so heartfelt, if completely scripted and rehearsed, appearance before the US public one month ago, when Obama promised he would do everything in his power to reform the NSA, including the ending of the Section 215 metadata collection, and the retenion of bulk phone records, the president certainly kept his promise. Just not quite in the way that everyone had assumed.

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1 thought on “Obama Asks Court To Make NSA Database Even Bigger”

  1. He was the greatest fraud ever perpetuated on the American people. This false progressive has destroyed the document he specialized in at Harvard……..the US constitution. He is no friend of the people, or of this nation. He is part of a new type of despots……..the globalists who see corporate rule of the world as the most efficient regardless they work against each other.
    A government is for social protection and development, a corporation for profits and the bottom line…..a very poor combination. Fascism, a word coined by Mussolini, means melding the two together to form world rule.
    It won’t work, but millions will suffer while they try. Global rule will never over ride tribal warfare. The Romans tried, so did Hitler, Mussolini, and Napoleon.
    This ought to show anyone who reads this that showing up to vote in a rigged voting system every few years isn’t enough to be politically engaged.
    The next one will be even worse. The US is finished as a republic, it is now a fascist dictatorship, one tiny step away from military rule…..thanks to NDAA.

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