Obama To Ban NSA Bulk Phone-Data Mining

by JASmius

Which means he's collected all the domestic spying data he needs to complete the Obamastapo database.  Either that or this goal was reached a ways back and he just continued it to rub our noses in it:

The most contentious part of the National Security Agency's secret dragnet of Americans' phone data is about to end, reports said Monday night.

The New York Times reported Monday night that the Obama administration is ready to unveil proposed legislation that would keep data on Americans' phone calling habits with their phone companies.

I.e. O is about to sign an Executive Decree to that effect.  Why?  This is why:

The proposed changes from the White House comes as a bipartisan measure from Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI8) and his Democratic counterpart, Maryland-2 Democratic Representative C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger also is ready for introduction, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Looks like The One is going to have to slap down the House again for engaging in unauthorized legislating.  Evidently Rogers and Ruppersberger didn't get the memo on his re-writing of Article I, Section I.

Read all about the R/R bill at the link.  But just know that Jim Sensenbrenner is not impressed:

A competing bipartisan bill has been drafted by House Judiciary Committee member James Sensenbrenner (R-WI5), the Journal noted.

That proposal would ban all bulk-records collection, and require both a judicial order for any request for phone or other records and proof it was part of an ongoing international terrorism probe, the Journal reported.

Sensenbrenner slammed the Intelligence Committee measure as "a convoluted bill that accepts the administration's deliberate misinterpretation of the law."

He also criticized it for limiting, but not ending, bulk collection.

Bottom line: The Regime cannot be trusted.  On anything.  Yeah, it's obvious to us, but it's not obvious to a majority of Americans, so it must be pointed out constantly at eardrum-bursting volume.  Which is why you can count on an Executive Decree coming down from on high in the very near future.

That, and O wants the "credit" for "listening to" and "heeding" the privacy concerns of the American people.  He so misses our idolatrous adulation, after all.