Snowdon is a dummy

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On Thursday, a bill that would overhaul the Patriot Act and curtail the so-called metadata surveillance exposed by Edward J. Snowden was overwhelmingly passed by the House Judiciary Committee and was heading to almost certain passage in that chamber this month.

An identical bill in the Senate — introduced with the support of five Republicans — is gaining support over the objection of Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, who is facing the prospect of his first policy defeat since ascending this year to majority leader.

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Under the bipartisan bills in the House and Senate, the Patriot Act would be changed to prohibit bulk collection, and sweeps that had operated under the guise of so-called National Security Letters issued by the F.B.I. would end. The data would instead be stored by the phone companies themselves, and could be accessed by intelligence agencies only after approval of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court.

The legislation would also create a panel of experts to advise the FISA court on privacy, civil liberties, and technology matters, while requiring the declassification of all significant FISA court opinions.

...THE SPYING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL COUNTRIES AND HUMANS CEASE TO EXIST.

I have to confess I get confused with your post with all the unfamiliar names and terms and legal speak.

US ambassador to Germany John Emerson on Saturday defended the NSA, saying it was a matter of cultural difference.
"Americans only see it as a violation of privacy when someone reads their letters and emails or listens in on their phone calls," Emerson told German newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. For Germans, though, the violations also had a historical significance.
Emerson added that the ongoing cooperation between the two countries' intelligence services was "no secret."

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US ambassador to Germany John Emerson on Saturday defended the NSA, saying it was a matter of cultural difference.
"Americans only see it as a violation of privacy when someone reads their letters and emails or listens in on their phone calls," Emerson told German newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. For Germans, though, the violations also had a historical significance.
Emerson added that the ongoing cooperation between the two countries' intelligence services was "no secret."

The last sentence had been commented by other media and politicians as ... "ignorance".

Ralf Stegner, the deputy chairman of the Social Democrats (SPD), with which Chancellor Merkel's Christian Democrats govern in a grand coalition, used a newspaper interview to demand that her office tell all it knows about the spying allegations.
"For the chancellor, the game of keeping the latest findings at a distance and saying they are nothing to do with her is up," Stegner said in Monday's edition of the Munich-based national daily Süddeutsche Zeitung. The chancellor he said, must "enlighten [us] now."

This, he said, meant that "the current head of the Chancellery and both of his predecessors" must appear before the Bundestag's special committee set up to shed light on the surveillance activities of the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) . Stegner was referring to the current Chancellery boss, Peter Altmaier, as well as Ronald Pofalla and Thomas de Maiziere, who is now the interior minister. All three are members of Merkel's Christian Democrats.

De Maiziere, who was head of the Chancellery between 2005 and 2009 is scheduled to appear before the Bundestag's standing intelligence committee on Wednesday.
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The latest allegations were first reported in Saturday's edition of the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel. It said the BND intelligence agency had "deleted 12,000" requests from the NSA targeting "a certain number of senior officials from the French foreign service", as well as members of "EU institutions and several European countries."

You are really are the very first person I've ever put on ignore here