R.Paul has got it.
WASHINGTON — The government’s authority to sweep up vast quantities of phone records in the hunt for terrorists expired at 12:01 a.m. Monday after Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, blocked an extension of the program during an extraordinary and at times caustic Sunday session of the Senate.
Still, the Senate signaled that it was ready to curtail the National Security Agency’s bulk data collection program with likely passage this week of legislation that would shift the storage of telephone records from the government to the phone companies. The House overwhelmingly passed that bill last month. Senators voted, 77 to 17, on Sunday to take up the House bill.
Mr. Paul’s stand may have forced the temporary expiration of parts of the post-9/11 Patriot Act used by the National Security Agency to collect phone records, but he was helped by the miscalculation of Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, who sent the Senate on a weeklong vacation after blocking the House bill before Memorial Day.
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The expiration of surveillance authority demonstrates a profound shift in American attitudes since the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, when national security was pre-eminent in both parties. Fourteen years after that attack, even as American conflicts continue abroad, a swell of privacy concerns stemming from both the vast expansion of communication systems and an increasing distrust of government’s use of data has turned those concerns on their head.
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По существу один против целой котлы. Надеюсь, его рейтинг будет повышаться.
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Jack Thom
The bulk collection of Americans' phone records collected by the National Security Agency goes beyond what Congress allows and is illegal, a federal appeals court ruled .
“We find that the program exceeds the scope of what Congress has authorized,” Gerard Lynch wrote for the appeals panel.
"Metadata can reveal civil, political or religious affiliations; they can also reveal an individual's social status, or whether and when he or she is involved in intimate relationships," Lynch wrote.
The government argued that the program was properly authorized by Section 215 of the Patriot Act — but the judges weren't buying it.
"The sheer volume of information sought is staggering," the ruling reads. "They extend to every record that exists, and indeed to records that do not yet exist."
"The government can point to no grand jury subpoena that is remotely comparable to the real time data collection undertaken under this program,” Lynch wrote.
The government's argument the program is classified and should not be debated in the appeals court also didn't fly. Фигасе, когда правительство нарушает конституцию, это нарушение становится секретным.
Such a rationale simply showed the government didn't anticipate the vast NSA's surveillance apparatus would ever be revealed, the judges said.
“The government's argument from secrecy suggests that Congress did not contemplate a situation in which targets of 0215 orders would become aware of those orders on anything resembling the scale that they now have,” the decision said.
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Значит миллионы простых американцев, способных хоть немного анализировать будут смотреть на его ходы с вниманием и где-то надеждой.
Лучше бы основал собственную патрию отдельную от республиканского цирка. Пара валить обе партии и голосовать за следующую в списке. 
Поп врет или он уже не крисчен теперь? 
