Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act — that’s the authority that the NSA exploits to collect data about almost all of our phone calls — expires on June 1st. This week and next week Congress will take up legislation to extend it.
In the year since Edward Snowden first blew the whistle on the NSA’s intrusive dragnet spying operation, a massive wave of public opposition is rolling across the globe.
It’s already bad enough that the Obama administration is pushing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) — a corporate power grab disguised as a “trade” agreement.
