The Patriot Act Is Now USA Freedom Act 

How many times has the mainstream media mentioned the USA Freedom Act? Well, if you did hear of this legislation, you must have been watching C-SPAN or a foreign press channel. Read a report from NPR, that government funded broadcast, which never fails to present a known editorial viewpoint.

“The USA Freedom Act extends many parts of the 2001 USA Patriot Act, which expires June 1. The measure’s fate in the Senate is less likely.

The surveillance issue has sparked “rare bipartisan unity” in the House, NPR’s David Welna reports for today’s All Things Considered. He notes that the push to change the law comes from Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

“Despite changes to the NSA bulk telephone metadata program announced by President Obama last year,” Goodlatte says, “the bulk collection of the records has not ceased, and will not cease, unless and until Congress acts to shut it down.”

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Constitution 1 – 0 Government: NSA Starts Winding Down Bulk Data Collection 

As we detailed earlier, in a chaotic scene during the wee hours of Saturday, Senate Republicans blocked a bill known as the USA Freedom Act - backed by President Barack Obama, House Republicans and the nation's top law enforcement and intelligence officials – which would have preserved the government's ability to search phone company records for suspected spies and terrorists.

As AP reports, the failure to act means the NSA will immediately begin curtailing its previously-secret bulk data collection programs with The DoJ noting that while it will take time to taper off the collection process, that process began Friday (according to an administration official).

Sen. Rand Paul called the Senate's failure to allow an extension of the surveillance programs a victory for privacy rights, adding “we should never give up our rights for a false sense of security.”

We explained Rand Paul's refusal to play by the Washington script earlier and how the Senate failure to extend the Patriot Act leaves the future of America's “war against terrorists” – but really against “enemies domestic”, i.e., anyone who uses email, has a cell phone or in any other electronic way communicates with others – in limbo.

Now, it appears, as AP reports, the de-esclation of The NSA is escalating rather faster than many had dared to hope for…

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Merkel Lied: German Intelligence Gave NSA Millions Of Metadata 

The German intelligence gave their American counterparts 1.3 million ‘metadata’, including calls, text messages and e-mails per month.

“The Americans are prepared to negotiate a mutual agreement of non-espionage.” These words are the ones chosen by Angela Merkel back when it was discovered that the NSA had been spying on everyone all over the world, including Merkel herself.

The head of the German Government spoke in September 2013, at the outbreak of the scandal that surrounded US intelligence. Then she sought to defend her position in the elections of that same month and wanted to show her toughness to a matter that infuriated potential voters.

The problem was that, as we now know, President Barack Obama never intended to offer Merkel a non-espionage agreement of the type announced by Merkel.

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Snowden Documents Reveal How NSA Converts Conversations Into Searchable Text 

Most people realize that emails and other digital communications they once considered private can now become part of their permanent record.

But even as they increasingly use apps that understand what they say, most people don’t realize that the words they speak are not so private anymore, either.

Top-secret documents from the archive of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency can now automatically recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough transcripts and phonetic representations that can be easily searched and stored.

The documents show NSA analysts celebrating the development of what they called “Google for Voice” nearly a decade ago.

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NSA Planning False Flag To Take Down Power Grid? 

THERE IS VIRTUALLY NOTHING I WOULD PUT PAST OBAMA, AND THE SAME GOES FOR ANY OF THE CLAPPING SEALS HE HAS FOLLOWING HIM AROUND IN POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY.

THERE IS NO LOGICAL REASON NOT TO REPAIR THE ELECTRICAL GRID!

Any American who was alive on 9/11 knows where they were on the fateful morning. America lost roughly 3,000 SOULS that day, a day that will live in infamy, along with December 7th. Many of you that have followed me for a while know that I do NOT cover anything to do with whether 9/11 was an inside job on this site for personal reasons: I am from there, I worked in those buildings, and lost friends there. I say that just to assure you, I am in NO WAY minimizing what happened that horrible day with what I am about to say…

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