21 Facts About NSA Snooping That Every American Should Know

right side news ^ | 6-18-13 | American Dream

[TurboZamboni]

There seems to be a lot of confusion about what the NSA is actually doing. Are they reading our emails? Are they listening to our telephone calls? Do they target American citizens or is it only foreigners that they are targeting? Unfortunately, the truth is that we aren’t going to get straight answers from our leaders about this.

The folks running the NSA have already shown that they are willing to flat out lie to Congress, and Barack Obama doesn’t exactly have the greatest track record when it comes to telling the truth. These are men that play word games and tell lies for a living. So it would be unrealistic to expect them to come out and tell us the unvarnished truth about what is going on. That is why it is so important that whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden have come forward. Thanks to them and to the brave journalists that are willing to look into these things, we have been able to get some glimpses behind the curtain. And what we have learned is not very pretty.

[donmeaker]

They record it all. ALL.

Then they sort on meta-data, looking for particular people. Then they sort through it looking for favored subjects. That could be the word “rifle” or it could be the word “Patriot”.

We know they don’t filter on “Jihad”, or “Shariah” or “Bomb”. That could lead to finding real terrorists and violations of ‘diversity’ rules. Can’t have that.

[Logical me]

This will be used to obtain information on those that do not agree with the King Obama and his communists empire. And all they have to use is names of the person they want to destroy.

[867V309]

Make no mistake: the NSA is not about protecting us from terror; it is about protecting New World Order from us.

[jsanders2001]

From now on i will act like a Muzzie online and chat about how to blow stuff up so they won’t monitor my conversations..../s

[Bronzy]

Think I will name my future pets Rifle and Patriot. My phone conversations should be interesting.

[Cvengr]

4th Amendment:
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

[JimBianchi11]

You are 100% correct.

[Bshaw]

““The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

There you go again with that archaic claptrap! I mean, who can even read that, let alone comprehend that lengthy a run on sentence?

People who don’t think our founders were enlightened, have no appreciation for humanity or history.

[867V309]

Thanks. Please help get the word out: even on this enlightened forum many still don’t know or will not face the truth.

[bronxville]

They’re reading what you just wrote right now. :)

[Wingy]

Listen, that pesky, dusty old Fourth Amendment was written by old slave owning white men before cell phones, email, twitter, or even fax machines existed. It really only applies to written letters because that's all they had in those days. Anything invented or developed after 1791 is fair game for the various 'Three Letter Agencies' of the government.

I expect to hear some version of this some Sunday morning show in the near future.

[VideoDoctor]

The NSA is ANGRY because the public was supposed to stay unaware and naive' enjoying their "bread & circuses" while the NSA infirnged on your Constitutional Rights. Snowden threw a turd into their punchbowl.

As my longtime friend, a very good Internet security expert, who posted the following told me directly after I stated to him via the phone that "it appears you released MORE information than Edward Snowden:"

His response:

I wrote that days ago, but sat on it thinking about just that. The key is what I wrote is NOT classified information. It is freely available on telco specs, if you know where to look.

I'm not sure that matters to some people, but it is what it is.

This from an individual who is a former Emergency Response Engineer for Lucent Technologies.
He helped to construct part of the network he describes.

Read his full post for yourself if you want to know WHAT is going on with your cellphone RIGHT NOW.:

http://slashdot.org/~chill/journal/430067

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

I think it's called profiling. Evil for citizens to profile anyone but legitimate for the govt.

"WE THE PEOPLE ..." is just a slogan anymore. It has no relevance to the real world of America any longer.

[justa-hairyape]

And the most important fact, it was too much work to separate out governmental communications from the non-governmental, so they stored it all. Right on some shiny brand new storage devices. And then they hired a high school dropout to administer the data base. They do not even realize they have shot themselves in the foot.

[GOP Poet]

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[kearnyirish2]

“And the most important fact, it was too much work to separate out governmental communications from the non-governmental, so they stored it all. Right on some shiny brand new storage devices. And then they hired a high school dropout to administer the data base.”

They don’t see any distinction between “governmental” and “non-governmental”; all of it is theirs. I’m actually impressed it wasn’t some Red Chinese agent administering it...

[Diogenesis]

Fact 1: They ignored warnings,
before the Boston explosions
from the Russians AND parents,
AND THEN let them into the Homeland WITHOUT A PASSPORT.

Fact 2: Is that not special?