The Government Surveillance Reform Act looks to be a great bill, and the stars finally seem to be aligning for real reform. I'm hopeful for the first time in ov

The Government Surveillance Reform Act looks to be a great bill, and the stars finally seem to be aligning for real reform. I'm hopeful for the first time in over a decade. However, GSRA doesn't go far enough. GSRA still allows USGOV to wiretap communication links/facilities and save a copy of the communications without any individualized suspicion for those communications. Let's be clear: This is mass surveillance. This would be fine if it were strictly used for foreign intelligence purposes and completely firewalled off from domestic criminal law enforcement. But that's not what GSRA does. GSRA still allows the warrantless and suspicionless mass seizure of communications, it just says that the government needs to apply for a warrant to search through them retrospectively. Don't get me wrong, that's a whole lot better than the current situation where FBI/NSA/CIA do not even need a warrant, but it's still mass surveillance and it's still incompatible with the Constitution.