08.06.2017 - 05:59 [ Techdirt ]

Senator Tom Cotton Introduces Bill That Would Renew Section 702 Forever With Zero Changes

Attacks in other countries are apparently just pre-game warmups for terrorists. The only way to prevent a domestic attack is to never ask questions about Section 702 again, apparently. If we don‘t trust our government to respect our privacy and civil liberties, it‘s not because the NSA constantly abused its Section 702 collection programs (and then hid these abuses from its oversight). No, the real villain here is the man who exposed this abuse to the general public.