>"CNN says the White House is discussing a new plan to expand domestic, warrantless surveillance of Americans—by paying private companies..."
How does doing something you're not supposed to do suddenly legal because you pay someone else to do the bad thing?
It's been 20 years since the WTC/9-11. This is just inertia and it's not going to stop at the government's hand. People need to demand that all those provisions get sunset and all organizations built around it dismantled and sent home.