who says they didn't know???
Posted on 06/13/2013 4:43:22 PM PDT by raptor22
Security: With the director of national intelligence defending a program he told Congress didn't exist, the Patriot Act's author says this isn't the targeted surveillance intended and warns of losing needles in a too-big haystack.
Edward Snowden is quite possibly a traitor, but we have been caught in a Prism of our own making, outsourcing our national security to 29-year-old unstable contractors, one of nearly 500,000 employees of private firms with access to the government's most sensitive secrets.
Perhaps if we were doing the targeted surveillance envisioned by Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., when he wrote the Patriot Act, we wouldn't need so many potential security risks.
It boggles the mind that we didn't listen to the Russians when they warned about the Tsarnaev brothers in part because, well, they're the Russians. But we want to preserve the records of every housewife in Des Moines because data mining that arguably invades the privacy rights of innocent Americans might reveal something.
One person whose privacy was not invaded by U.S. intelligence was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, as he repeatedly visited the al-Qaida online magazine Inspire for its recipe "Build a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom."
The NSA's blanket surveillance did not detect Tsarnaev's interest in building the pressure cooker bombs he would use to devastating effect at the Boston Marathon. The massive databases that we are building a massive facility in Utah to store also failed to uncover the online communications that Tsarnaev had with a known Muslim extremist in Dagestan.
Sensenbrenner, who wrote and introduced the Patriot Act to Congress in 2001, says the National Security Agency overstepped its bounds by issuing the order to collect phone log records from millions of Americans.
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Because their cause was just in the opinion of the powers that be
Only one of them was a citizen, and only for a short time. Why would the NSA be spying on noncitizens, or people with connections to terrorists?
Who has time for that when all them right wingers are running around loose?
They were (are) studiously ignoring them and others like them.
Well they did stop the Hutaree.......oh, wait. LOL
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hutaree/index?tab=articles
Too busy looking for tea-partiers.
Because it’s not their job to catch people. That’s the FBI and now, DHS.
Because the purpose of the NSA center, as managed by Idi Amin Obama, is not security.
Somehow 12 millions ilegals know who to avoid the BP, the IRS, and the NSA.
The should teach.
Not Verizon customers? You know that is what Obama will say, and it will give him a reason to want to track EVERY phone company, if it isnt already being done
who says they didn't know???
.they were not members of the Tea Party or the Patriot Guard they were Muslim we do not profile Muslims at the NSA
We really rode the Russians about them going after the Chechan muzzies.
They didn't post jihadist videos on their Facebook accounts, for example.
Or do something stupid like murder three guys they knew.
The NSA did absolutely everything they could with that one.
Better Question: Why didn’t they catch the 9/11 terrorists?
NSA was listening to bin Laden’s central command phone - for 3 years.
They tracked the known (to them) associates from Yemen to the US.
NSA monitored traffic and knew an attack was eminent.
Two of the terrorists stayed in a motel a couple of miles from NSA headquarters.
NSA had both the technological means and legal permission to stop them - and did not.
Why do they need more money, more tech and more legal authority?
BTW: NSA has had unfettered access to all communications data - phone, fax, internet - in the US for some time.
This is all in a documentary from NOVA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdPpdu8OGDQ
I should have added that NSA listened in on conversations from the terrorist to the AQ command while they were in the US.
Because they were too busy looking for terrorists. You know. Gun-toting, bible thumping tea party patriots, especially armed veteran oath keepers.
Bingo! Jim wins a free audit from IRS, and a free orifice exam by NSA.
.... What are you talking about? ..... They DID catch them!!! .... Don't you remember the big shoot out and mayhem?
.... Of course it would have been a lot better if they caught them before they blew up all of those innocent people in Boston, But, as you know, prevention of terrorism isn't the NSA's strongest suit. Their strongest suit is similar to the IRS's strongest suit .... they are both tasked with the prevention and proliferation of Conservative causes and independent thought. You know ... destroying the same people and groups that prevent this country from developing a "One Party" political system that the Prez with a fez so desperately dreams of!
Obama didn’t want to?
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