Octafish (46,382 posts)
It's Official: The USA Freedom Act Is Just As Destructive As The USA Patriot Act
It's Official: The USA Freedom Act Is Just As Destructive As The USA Patriot Act
Tyler Durden
zerohedge, June 3, 2015
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/03/2015 21:30 -0400
Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,
EXCERPT...
If anyone had actually taken the time to read the legislation, they’d see that most of the ‘concessions’ made by the government are entirely hollow.
Secret FISA courts still exist. Lone wolf surveillance authority and roving wiretaps still exist. They can still grab oodles of other data like medical and business records.
And the US Attorney General has even been awarded new ’emergency powers’ to use in his/her sole discretion… just in case the secret courts might be uncooperative.
The big victory being cheered by the media pertains to the collection of phone records. This one is actually hilarious.
The USA FREEDOM Act prevents the government from seizing and storing ‘call detail records’, the so-called meta-data information like your phone number, the other caller’s phone number, the length of the call, etc.
But section 107(k)(3)(B) of the new law specifically states that ‘call detail records’ do NOT include the *actual content* of the call itself. Or your name. Address. Financial data. Cell-site location. Etc.
So basically they can’t archive your phone number. But everything else is fair game. Congratulations on your freedom.
Lawmakers also managed to sprinkle all sorts of other worthless provisions into the USA FREEDOM Act.
For example, the Inspector General (IG) of the United States is required to issue a report discussing what civil liberty violations may have occurred over the last few years.
Great. Except that IG reports are just that– reports. They have no teeth. And Congress can do with this one precisely what they do with every other IG report that gets issued: nothing.
(Seriously, when was the last time you heard any ruckus about an IG report? Probably never.)
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-03/its-official-usa-freedom-act-just-destructive-usa-patriot-act
EmPHASSis in original.
I dunno why we fight about who's a commie wearing what pantsuit on Vanity Fair. We need focus on the real problems out to destroy democracy.
If you read the DUmp, you'll recognize Octafish as the resident chief conspiracy theorist. He (she?) seems especially proud of the endless work he does on the JFK assassination......which to normal people means that he's a bullshitter. To him, however, no mere fact was ever a match for one of his theories. When people dare challenge him, he posts so much blue ink you'd think a Smurf was writing a suicide note.
Now, a good conspiracy theorist is supposed to seek out The Truth, irrespective of who's in charge. But Octafish, the incomprehensible pansy, posts on DU, and we all know what happens when you stray from the flock (right, Skippy?)
Which explains why the trenchant Octafish posts a picture of George Bush and Dick Cheney when whining about the Freedom Act when it's 2015 and W has been chilling in Dallas for almost 7 years now. Hey, Octa? For someone so totally in the know, you seem to have forgotten who's approving all of this stuff now. Let me clue you in: he's a half-black Democrat from Chicago.
Do some research and you might even find a picture of him.
You stupid, feckless, worthless turd.
