[DesertRhino]

A housecleaning is coming,,, Freedom will be restored. they have forgotten the principles America was built on.

[DesertRhino]

There’s a pink elephant in the room. Every single one of us knows that there are certain things we may not say, and certain topics we must not joke about.

If we say those things, we get a visit from the state operatives, secret service, IRS, FBI, etc. America is slipping into a universal surveillance state. It must be stopped. When an American censors what he is about to say,,,, his next feeling should be anger.

[steve8714]

Timeline?

[1010RD]

These are lies. The American government wouldn’t do this.

[steve86]

Read the New Yorker article. Fascinating. Surveillance society indeed!

[TigersEye]

“It was my duty to oppose it,” she told me. “That is why oversight existed, so that these things didn’t happen again. I’m not an attorney, but I thought that there was no way it was constitutional.” Roark recalls thinking that, if N.S.A. officials were breaking the law, she was “going to fry them.”

She soon learned that she was practically alone in her outrage. Very few congressional leaders had been briefed on the program, and some were apparently going along with it, even if they had reservations.

That's our representatives, folks.

[phil_t]

Here’s the URL for the full source article in the New Yorker Magazine

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=all

[piasa]

... In September 2015 Binney and 27 other members of VIPS steering group wrote a letter to U.S. President Obama ---https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_%28U.S._intelligence_official%29

The Ray McGovern's VIPS cult lifts its head again....

[piasa]

Here’s where fake news and other garbage on both sides of the aisle are coming from, and VIPS is part of it:

http://www.heritage.org/report/the-larouche-network