I feel so much better

[HiTemp]

Wow, what a relief knowing the NSA can no longer collect our bulk phone records but instead must get them from the phone companies via a secret process in a secret court that no ordinary citizen can know the inner workings of.

Sure they won't collect them all anyway. Sure.

Just like the FBI swore they wouldn't violate rights using the Patriot Act, then showed up testifying in Congress that there were between 4 and 5 thousand violations that year, but it was a good trend because the previous year there were 9000+.

You'd think with a fleet of 160 surveillance planes the FBI would be knocking back arrests left and right, yet there is no spike in their stats with or without the planes. So I wonder why have them? What exactly ARE they used for, all one hundred sixty of them?

[Grug - American Neanderthal]

Yeah, but they won't be able to use them to convict you now without showing the warrant. I remember when they sold us all on the patriot act, and how the tacking capability would only be used for people out side of the US or those who were contacting those with link to terror group outside the US, and then we find out they just took everything and used for everything, not just terrorism related stuff.

I think its a good thing we are revisiting the patriot act which was supposed to sunset anyway, and rescind at least some of the power the govt assumed from it. Though it looks like very little will be leaving their hands anyway.