Re:House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Priv...
by lern_too_spel on Thursday January 11, 2018 @07:35PM
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The FBI did not need a warrant to search that phone. The owner (the shooter's employer) gave them permission.
Obama didn't expand surveillance on his way out (several surveillance programs stopped under his watch, including both email and phone metadata collection). You're confusing an authorization to share information, which allowed a more thorough investigation into Russian meddling, with authorization to collect new data.
Your first link doesn't support your claim that Obama quadrupled funding because that didn't happen. https://fas.org/irp/budget/
And we all know that Obama released Manning over the objections of our current President.
Obama didn't expand surveillance on his way out (several surveillance programs stopped under his watch, including both email and phone metadata collection). You're confusing an authorization to share information, which allowed a more thorough investigation into Russian meddling, with authorization to collect new data.
Your first link doesn't support your claim that Obama quadrupled funding because that didn't happen. https://fas.org/irp/budget/
And we all know that Obama released Manning over the objections of our current President.