Every news junkie looks forward to Friday afternoon when the White House dumps info out onto the American public hoping that journalists and citizens are too busy watching television and boozing it up to care. Today’s docu dump has to do with the one issue Obama WILL wait for Congress to act on, because he’s too cowardly to keep his promises to America.
A federal court has again renewed an order allowing the National Security Agency to continue its bulk collection of Americans’ phone records, a decision that comes more than a year after President Obama pledged to end the controversial program.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has approved a request to keep the NSA’s mass surveillance of U.S. phone metadata operating until June 1, when the legal authority for the program is set to expire in Congress.
The extension is the fifth of its kind since Obama said he would effectively end the Snowden-exposed program as it currently exists during a major policy speech in January 2014. Obama and senior administration officials have repeatedly insisted that they will not act alone to end the program without Congress.
“While the Administration waits for the Congress to act, it has continued to operate the program with these important modifications in place,” the White House said in a statement released late Friday.
Isn’t it weird how Obama will unilaterally act to give illegal aliens amnesty but he won’t do it to follow through on his promise to stop spying on Americans?