Posted on 08/17/2013 1:48:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A pair of civil-liberties Democrats whom the White House tried to appease in a closed-door meeting warned today that fresh reports of thousands of privacy violations by the National Security Agency are just the “tip of a larger iceberg.”
On Thursday, the Washington Post published its report of a May 2012 audit leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden that found 2,776 violations over the previous year of executive orders and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act provisions governing spying on Americans or foreign targets in the U.S. These included both computer and operator errors.
Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.) have been some of President Obama’s harshest critics—within his party and outside—on domestic spying. They were among allies and foes of the NSA programs summoned by Obama to the Oval Office at the beginning of the month as he hoped to calm his detractors before promising new, vague reforms. …
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Supporting NSA big brother spying makes you a “realist”? Really? I’d say the realists are the ones that actually care about the 4th amendment.
A huge misperception about the CIA is that it has a right-wing culture —the truth is the exact opposite.
I am beginning to think the NSA is the same.
HOW could you believe in LIMITED GOVERNMENT, but have a career there, storing and vetting ALL the electronic data of the whole country?
It is an Agency of Mayor Bloombergs, from the top to the bottom.
The NSA is NYC on steroids —it has nothing to do with America, and The Founders would have had NOTHING to do with any part of it’s mission.
Depends on the meaning of "realist". Same problem with "pragmatist". One might consider either of them to be that one is aware of the truth of the situation and accepts that it is what it is (almost fatalistic - or, on the flip side, complicity in tyranny). Not to be confused with actually wanting to make things right with the truth.
Two of the biggest leftists in Congress. Making a grandstand show of ignorance, at which they are very good.
What's to hide?
Such as the NSA has had direct access to every bank account through the federal reserve banking system. Wait until everyone gets a sniff of that little doody.
Do you have the spreadsheet for all 535 'critters?
Funny how the GOP doesn’t complain though. Two Democrats do the right thing, and where is the GOP?
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