Anyone who couldn’t see this coming probably thought the Patriot Act would have limits, too.
I can’t see much, if any, of this ‘evidence’ getting through the courts’ ‘expectation of privacy’ doctrine.
Before Bush, NSA was a DOD agency forbidden to spy domestically. After Bush they were a domestic spy agency that would make the Stasi blush.
After Bush AND Obama, now they spy domestically, and call the cops on you for regular crimes.
Shameful. And utterly UnAmerican.
I seem to remember Obama’s primary impact in the eyes of his fellow Democrats, was to be a very large database.
So what is this database being used for as we read about the present election?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3029205/posts
Phone intercept confirms subject has exited Gas 'N Sip, heading to Flea Market..!
Local units to tail.
Furthermore, I'll plan to write my messages in cursive, thereby greatly reducing the chances for our modern, diverse government can read them.
The intricacy and universal coverage of laws, legislatively enacted or bureaucratically decreed is such that everyone of us not in the ICU is breaking some law every minute of every day while awake and probably more while asleep. The NSA knows and by sharing its information, which was inevitable from the beginning, the government is empowered to arrest and imprison any individual at any time. There is NO freedom. We have, in this country, more conditional privileges than most of the world but there is NO freedom.
The ubiquity of laws and rules makes gun confiscation per se moot. With the ability to access the NSA- always existing but not generally used- data renders every gunowner arrestable at any time for infractions not directly related to guns. Because every part of the society has disavowed the wording of the 2nd Amendment all that is necessary to kill gun rights is to start arresting gunowners on one of the many many infractions that they and everyone else commit daily. An arrest, it is accepted by virtually everyone including especially Sean Hannity, takes away your right to possess a gun.
The NSA can pick up communications between suspect people overseas to those in the US and pass it on to the FBI. It has in the past and will continue to do so in the future.
How do you think some of the ISIS and Al Qaeda and possibly Hamas/Hezbollah people have been picked up in the U.S?
Time to stop doing the “knee jerk” dance and learn how intelligence works.
The incredible amount of Soviet communications to their own agents and U.S. Communist Party partners during and right after WW2 was monitored by the FBI and other government agencies for decades before the story was told in the 1990’s (i.e. The Venona Papers).
You have no idea how invaluable this information was and still is
The enemy is here inside the US and we have a perfectly legitimate right to monitor their actions even if it involves communications with someone in the U.S. or from the U.S. to terrorists overseas.
To NOT do this is criminally negligent at the least, and if prevent by the President, treasonous.
I suspect most critics of this NSA power have never be involved in the “wonderful world of subversion and terrorism”. If they had, they would have shut their stupid mouths a long time ago.
The world has changed since the disasterous “Gentlemen don’t read other gentlemens’ mail” policies of pre WW2. You see what they got us.
The enemy is using every known means of communication to instruct their agents here in what to do. If we don’t look for, find and follow what our enemies are communicating, we are going to have a lot of dead citizens in the future.
NSAs mission has never been, and should never be, domestic policing or domestic spying.
Yeah, sure, right. You should hang yourself and make America a little cleaner.