In USA Today, the headline read, "
NSA data collection ended," the morning after the USA Freedom Act was passed and signed by President Barack Obama.
Could that Orwellian doublespeak headline be any more wrong? It's almost as misleading as the name of the law itself.
One small part of a single NSA data collection program was barely modified and we're supposed to celebrate. Instead of the NSA directly capturing and holding the metadata for every American citizen's cellphone conversation, the telecommunication companies must hold on to it for the NSA, and the NSA can access it through the federal court system with little trouble. That's a crushing defeat for the NSA? All we did was save on storage costs.
