People always assumed they did this but now we have proof.
I thought it was amazing that the government spent so much time discussing the call records being logged.. when they are doing so much worse. Maybe that's how they keep people focusing on what the government wants to talk about? (aka look over here, nevermind that thing over there...)
I think it's a combination of things. On the one hand, the phone records issue is the most easily understood by the general public, and so it already had traction there. It sort of fell into the government's lap that they could focus all of their press' attention on that issue in particular.
I agree doubly so however - the phone records are near the very bottom of the list when it comes to the severity of what Snowden's(and possibly other's) revelations have brought to light.
It was pretty obvious that's why they were doing it. The FISA Amendments Act is also much worse than the 215 section of the Patriot Act - or the Executive Order 12333, which is even less talked about.
That doesn't mean the call records issue wasn't important. After all, they pick their torture and drone assassination targets based on that alone, in many cases. But considering the Internet is such a big part of everyone's lives these days, I think NSA getting a firehose from the big carriers and cable providers is a bigger deal, yet I've heard very little talk about denying NSA access to the undersea cables.
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People always assumed they did this but now we have proof.
I thought it was amazing that the government spent so much time discussing the call records being logged.. when they are doing so much worse. Maybe that's how they keep people focusing on what the government wants to talk about? (aka look over here, nevermind that thing over there...)
This find is way worse than call detail records..
I think it's a combination of things. On the one hand, the phone records issue is the most easily understood by the general public, and so it already had traction there. It sort of fell into the government's lap that they could focus all of their press' attention on that issue in particular.
I agree doubly so however - the phone records are near the very bottom of the list when it comes to the severity of what Snowden's(and possibly other's) revelations have brought to light.
It was pretty obvious that's why they were doing it. The FISA Amendments Act is also much worse than the 215 section of the Patriot Act - or the Executive Order 12333, which is even less talked about.
That doesn't mean the call records issue wasn't important. After all, they pick their torture and drone assassination targets based on that alone, in many cases. But considering the Internet is such a big part of everyone's lives these days, I think NSA getting a firehose from the big carriers and cable providers is a bigger deal, yet I've heard very little talk about denying NSA access to the undersea cables.