[Black Agnes]

purely domestic communications could easily end up in NSA hands, so long as an algorithm estimated at least a 51 percent probability that they were foreign.

How much do ya want to be the algorithm goes something like this:

LocationProb = 51 + Calculatedprob

[21st Century Crusader]

They’re too busy watching American citizens exercising their Constitutional rights, and ignoring the muzzie terrorists.

[Democrat_media]

Maybe to remain private we need to use the TOR network, proxy servers, private browsers not IE nor firefox

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

We are living post privacy and individualism. Is this the”Ideals” of which Obama spoke?

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S9H6RO0bKA

[dirtboy]

Beyond the appalling Constitutional violations here, there is another factor consistent with the Obama Admin's approach to fighting terrorists. Just as they have shifted more and more to drone attacks over the hard but vital military counterinsurgency approach, they are also clearly shifting to a technological approach to intel, at the expense of humanint, or human-collected intel. which is difficult and often messy and conflicted - but vital.

I think this may be a factor as to why they failed to act on the Russian intel about the marathon bombers - they are engrossed in the arrogance that they can get whatever tech info they want, damn the Constitution, and that will suffice. And that goes without even getting into who they consider to be a potential terrorist. It means they are ignoring the history of intel operations that thought humanint wasn't important. Those operations tended to fail. Badly.

[AlexW]

It is hard to imagine how or why they could, or would, monitor so many
around the world, unless they were suspects in some anti government group.
I take only basic precautions such as using StartPage for search.
I am on a foreign ISP, and I do not visit freaky sites.
Being a regular on FreeRepublic, however, might classify me as an enemy of the state, haha.

[Doogle]

....so if the RNC calls you during election time to remind you to vote and Holder has tapped the RNC they now have your info....put together with any donations listed with the Tea Party....anyone you’ve called.....most likely what you’ve said...(don’t believe this BS line about no content recorded or saved)...

[SilverMine]

This is a link to Wired Magazine article on the NSA building March 2012 it is much more than Verizon Wireless folks, much more. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/

[indthkr]

Data vacuum cleaner bump for later...

[R_Kangel]

.... Considering that “Right Wing Extremist” groups (Read Tea Party Groups et-al)have been recently put on the terrorist watch lists and then subsequently and quickly prioritized ABOVE Al-Qaeda and foreign terrorist groups by this administration’s crack threat assessment wonks ....... AND Considering these developments of late, I think perhaps the motives of this administration may be well be starting to reveal itself. And folks, I sure don’t like what I see. I may not be extremely good at math ..... but I sure as heck don’t have a very hard time putting two and two together.