So the question is not whether Joe Biden ever grandstanded on the topic - I'm sure he did, as every politician would. The question is what he had done about it when he was Senator and VP - specific actions attributable to him? Because if he has been consistent to paying lip service to the issue while not doing anything in practice - it is prudent to expect the same consistency to extend into the future.
I told you in the GP post. The email metadata program was shut down, and the phone metadata collection was reduced.
> PRISM still exists,
PRISM does not collect Americans' data.
> The question is what he had done about it when he was Senator and VP - specific actions attributable to him?
Again, I told that to you.
You haven't told me anything in fact except that some things supposedly happened while Biden was a VP.
There was only one in the leaks. That one.
> how do you know there's no other programs
If there were any, Snowden would have leaked those instead of a program that had already been shut down.
> how do we know it actually was reduced and not just changed codename?
Because laws were changed, and oversight was added that showed how many metadata records the NSA requested from the telcos.
> how you know Biden personally had anything to do with shutting it down
Does it matter if he was personally in charge or if he delegated? Collection of Americans'metadata shrunk while he was VP.
He seems consistent on this issue. Prior to his stint as VP, he complained about metadata collection by the GWB administration. https://youtu.be/h2qgU8kJt-0