Despite Dianne Feinstein‘s supposed „conversion“ earlier this week about the NSA being out of control with its spying, and the associated performance of NSA folks claiming that they were screwed, it‘s quickly become apparent that this was all pure theater to make people think that real reform might be coming. (..)
That „except under specific procedures and restrictions set forth in the bill“ just takes the highly questionable reasoning of the FISA Court in approving the bulk data collection and makes that the „exception.“ In other words, it does exactly the opposite of what Feinstein claims. Rather than banning bulk data collection, it legalizes it.