Posted on 06/12/2013 7:02:08 AM PDT by gethimoutofthehouse
Anger was mounting in Congress on Tuesday night as politicians, briefed for the first time after revelations about the government's surveillance dragnet, vowed to rein in a system that one said amounted to "spying on Americans".
Intelligence chiefs and FBI officials had hoped that the closed-door briefing with a full meeting of the House of Representatives would help reassure members about the widespread collection of US phone records revealed by the Guardian.
But senior figures from both parties emerged from the meeting alarmed at the extent of a surveillance program that many claimed never to have heard of until whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked a series of top-secret documents.
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What say you, Sen. Feinstein?
Isn’t this a gross violation of the Fourth Amendment?
[But senior figures from both parties emerged from the meeting alarmed at the extent of a surveillance program that many claimed never to have heard of until whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked a series of top-secret documents.]
Because..... a $40 BILLION data center in UTAH gets built without their knowledge or voting to authorize the funding to pay for it ?
Their public indignation will evaporate as soon as the Obama administration assures them that their individual communications are secure from all monitoring and tracking.
Yet we have a Boehner calling Snowden a traitor.
after the last couple of days on here then it’s scary to see a couple , thankfully just a couple who has no problem with spying on us all and would rather attack the guy who told the world how the obama Govt is breaking the law and the constitution and then I was asked off one if I love obama while they defend spying, you can’t even make any of this up anymore and how stupid the country has become
Seen Greta lately and she is on fire ,her time slot needs to take over Hannity and what is great is that she knows the law and can put the likes of Graham on his back
thank you, I’m sick of seeing a couple of freepers keep saying this is nothing because the NSA has been doing it for years.
and judge Roberts
Its kinda funny how desperate our government is to get this dangerous “spy” yet want him extradited for unlawful use of a computer.
If they want to extradite him for treason then they need to man up and extradite him for treason but I suspect they can’t.
“There was a letter that we were supposed to have received in 2011 but I can’t find it and most of my friends in Congress did not receive this either,” said New Jersey Democrat Bill Pascrell, who claimed the widespread collection of phone data amounted to “spying on Americans This is one of the first briefings I have been to where I actually learned something.””
interesting
I wonder what the point. Both the Bush & Obama Regimes lied to get what they wanted in wiretaps, or overstepped their bounds, or just did what they wanted anyway. When everything is secret, including the supposed checks and balances, it is near impossible to trust anyone in this regard.
And not a total idiot. He, or anyone else whose irrational votes come to mind, should just own up to anything at all. Then say they're sorry for what they did but they're owning up and casting votes that might save the US, they won't be intimidated. I think at this point we'd forgive ANYTHING whatever the feds have on them.
But I will not forgive casting a vote against the nation to save oneself from personal embarrassment.
*snicker*
Theyre so cute when they try to pretend to be angry at something they support. Theyre so much like their daddy Obama.
Well, thank God and the Constitution that we have freedom of the press in this country to bring this sort of thing into the light. What a pity “this country” no longer means “America”.
exactly
he;s a traitor , ok what has he stolen,
er I don’t know
ok what has he done to hurt our safety ?
er I don’t know.
OK why is he a traitor then?
Er he gave ur secrets away
what secrets
I don’t know
That is how stupid many have become in the country today, they hear a talking head, and then they repeat the talking point B/S points.
Heard today again off Guilliani that he;s a high school drop out, , which is another Alinsky tactic, but so is Richard Branson of Virgin airways, so are other billionaires , plus I;ve met many ids who take their GED because they want out of school, they hate school, they want to go to college or get a job earlier and so that he;s a school drop out sums up how pathetic the stupid party is
but they want to now give millions of illegals a reward and yet again our voices are not heard
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