Privacy Lawsuits Over NSA Spying Force Retention of Metadata 59
jfruh writes "Under the U.S.'s previously secret program of gathering phone call metadata, that information was only retained for a period of five years. Now the government has petitioned the court system to retain it longer — not because it wants to, it says, but because it needs to preserve it as evidence for the various privacy lawsuits filed against the government. Federal lawyers have suggested several ways the information can be preserved without being available to the NSA."
Re:Which is the same thing as saying... (Score:5, Insightful)
That's a nice idea. But can you point to a collection of Representatives, Senators, and a President we could have elected over the past 12 years that would have prevented this?
Re:Generals with benefits (Score:4, Insightful)
Then a firing squad.
FTFY