re: #206 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

You shouldn’t misrepresent things just to get page clicks. The tactic will backfire on you, and is kind of insulting.

Misrepresent is far too strong a term. The potential for an end to much of the drama about domestic (non relevant to a specific investigation) metadata collection by the NSA by ending it is real.

There is nothing easily fixed about informing the public about an extremely abstruse area of law where they don’t have a very good basis of knowledge in the first place, no.

I don’t find this to be so abtruse as to defy efficient education to those that care enough to pay attention. Those that don’t, well I’m unconcerned.

I didn’t say that the bill should fail because people will think it does more than it should despite its actual effects. The actual effects are the main thing I’m concerned about.

Okay you simply have less confidence in the bills (edit ) language than I do.

Can you please address the most substantive criticism, about 3rd party data? You alleged that this bill wasn’t about 3rd party data collection, but to me, that’s what the bulk data collection is. Can you clarify?

Do you mean as in the NSA having metadata as collected by ISP’s? Or other nations? I need more detail to address this. .