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Ted Cruz: Let’s not rush to judgment on NSA surveillance
Hotair ^ | 06/17/2013 | AllahPundit

Posted on 06/17/2013 12:57:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: FreeAtlanta

Exactly. It isn’t necessarily that they spy on our most private moments in life which should upset us in the first place, but it is that some court, employer, or government agency will hold their information as gospel and we can be convicted on bogus data. He who controls the information controls us.


121 posted on 06/18/2013 12:12:09 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: uncommonsense

I hope Ted can stand through all this. I, for one, keep mixing Cruz with Rubio, and admit my sin. Rubio is the devil. Cruz is the Saint.

I first heard of Cruz on Mark Levin’s radio program last year and I had to pull over and listen to every word Cruz said, as he was spot on. I even went home and made a donation to his campaign.


122 posted on 06/18/2013 12:15:42 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: DoughtyOne
The only difference between then and now is the public knows and is caught up in the hype....

They've always been tracking us...however if our Gov. doesn't stay active with tech updates and utilizes them...well...you can bet other countries ARE and will proceed without us....thus leaving us all the more vulnerable.

I don't think the NSA is ignoring the data....I do think their hands are often tied, just like our police and military.

I have friends in the police force as well as military...it's disgusting the regulations they have to abide by.....while the criminals and our foreign enemies have none... We muzzle our people for the sake of some idiot complaining because they fell and sued while taking a breathalizer test. At work i can't interfer if i see an individual pounding on his kid....because of lawsuites. Our military has lawyers with them to determine if or not firing on the enemy is legal or not. And now we have the american people who refuse to see we ARE no longer free from the attacks and invasions other countries have had to deal with all along....yet we clamor for that freedom...

123 posted on 06/18/2013 12:30:35 PM PDT by caww
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To: DoughtyOne
The only difference between then and now is the public knows and is caught up in the hype....

They've always been tracking us...however if our Gov. doesn't stay active with tech updates and utilizes them...well...you can bet other countries ARE and will proceed without us....thus leaving us all the more vulnerable.

I don't think the NSA is ignoring the data....I do think their hands are often tied, just like our police and military.

I have friends in the police force as well as military...it's disgusting the regulations they have to abide by.....while the criminals and our foreign enemies have none... We muzzle our people for the sake of some idiot complaining because they fell and sued while taking a breathalizer test. At work i can't interfer if i see an individual pounding on his kid....because of lawsuites. Our military has lawyers with them to determine if or not firing on the enemy is legal or not. And now we have the american people who refuse to see we ARE no longer free from the attacks and invasions other countries have had to deal with all along....yet we clamor for that freedom...

124 posted on 06/18/2013 12:30:35 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Caww I think each of us can see instances where data collection is necessary. The problem is, it’s a give and take topic. They push. We push back.

How much data collection is too much? Since this data is subject to extreme abuse, it can be used to control just about anyone it amounts to massive danger.

With this information, just about anyone is subject to blackmail of some sort. Business secrets are available. Secured communications can be captured and deciphered.

We are messing with total destruction here.


125 posted on 06/18/2013 12:37:18 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Speaker John Boehner (R) no (D) no (R)... has more waffles than IHOP.)
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To: USS Johnston

I like Cruz. As for Rand Paul don’t forget he voted to confirm Kerry and Hagel. His plan to filibuster Brennan was political grandstanding. He should have voted against all three. Also, Paul said we have to give the president some leeway. Oh NO we don’t Rand.


126 posted on 06/18/2013 12:52:12 PM PDT by katiedidit1
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To: SeekAndFind

Et tu, Ted?


127 posted on 06/18/2013 12:56:58 PM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: DoughtyOne

<....”We are messing with total destruction here”...>

Yes...and why are we in this position?

I will say again...we ask for good men and they rise...we fight to get them to Washington and they go. But when they get there they learn that they are up against... a mighty ‘stronghold’ of men and woman from both sides of the aisle who are not going to even allow them a place if they can’t make some concessions....that’s how it works.

... ..and if they aren’t willing you can be certain they are left out of the loop on the sidebar. They MUST get a foothold but we slam them and stop supporting them as soon as they attempt to position themselves for the Bigger Prize of taking these people out!

If WAshington doesn’t have the Representatives we need there to upend that stronghold...it’s not going to make one bit of difference what the people think about anything..let alone privacy....and we are currently seeing how very much those in control could care less what we know they are doing.


128 posted on 06/18/2013 1:04:10 PM PDT by caww
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To: uncommonsense
What is it with supposedly like-minded people who take one little comment and make a false doctrine out of it?

Fair enough. I should have known better than to have gone off half-cocked. Thanks for the context I should have looked up myself.

129 posted on 06/18/2013 2:13:45 PM PDT by BfloGuy (Don't try to explain yourself to liberals; you're not the jackass-whisperer.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Cruz, Rubio, Boehner.......we have such great leaders in the GOP.


130 posted on 06/18/2013 3:52:37 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: bkepley
The loony left and the loony right cancel each other out. It's a wash.

Not so. The loony left also has government employees, including Presidential cabinet & puppeteers, the voting dead and maybe not all, but most, of the alphabet agencies.

131 posted on 06/18/2013 3:57:20 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: LurkedLongEnough
>>maybe not all, but most all of the alphabet agencies.<<

Not to mention the government indoctrination centers, higher "education", the so-called news "media" and the RATagandists in the entertainment industry.

Did I leave anything out?

132 posted on 06/18/2013 4:07:20 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Hey RATs! Control your murdering freaks.)
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To: livius
Aside from that, I think Cruz is making an important point. The NSA surveillance was secretive but also almost unavoidable because everything is electronic now.

What type of flippen cowflop is this?

Since we've had enemies and bad guys for hundreds of years, and since bad guys/terrorist use the postal mail to communicate, should the U.S. Government be opening, reading and examining the contents of mail of all Americans?

133 posted on 06/18/2013 4:21:58 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: rintense

>> I don’t trust ANYONE is DC. Cruz is becoming one of ‘them’.

Because he’s not hyperventilating over the NSA?


134 posted on 06/18/2013 4:24:51 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: livius
Sarah Palin thinks she’s a different race from Latinos? Surprise, they’re Caucasians too!

If Palin is just like/same race as Latinos/Hispanics, do Latinos mark X for "White/Caucasian" on government forms?

135 posted on 06/18/2013 4:33:40 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: CottShop

Agreed! I wouldn’t take my eyes off of Mike Lee, either. He, Ted, and Sarah are in this to the end. Pray for them.

Tagline ...


136 posted on 06/18/2013 4:35:10 PM PDT by glock rocks (Matt 18:20)
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To: Norm Lenhart; DoughtyOne

WTF, over?


137 posted on 06/18/2013 4:39:21 PM PDT by glock rocks (Matt 18:20)
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To: SeekAndFind

San Antonio jobs?


138 posted on 06/18/2013 4:39:51 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: glock rocks

A confuZed...I haZ one???


139 posted on 06/18/2013 4:41:26 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh great, can’t wait to see all the people here throwing Cruz under the bus. Seems there is no one who can satisfy conservatives except the conservative who is complaining about everyone else.


140 posted on 06/18/2013 4:41:56 PM PDT by CityCenter (Pleading the 5th is just so 1972.)
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