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.
The Soviet Union, China, North Korea, et al., used the same “for your own security” crap to create totalitarian systems that destroyed their countries.
We don’t need that here. Stop letting in militant “immigrants”.
People are pretty ignorant about this subject. That’s not good.
They bulk collect on everyone. Got it, everyone. You are fully ID in all your electronic communications. Your home phone, work phone, cell phone, computer speakers, mic and any other unencrypted device you use which has a mic or speaker and connects to the internet. The audio is sent to their database.
Law enforcement agencies have terminals to this database. Congress has a terminal. They could enter “Freerepublic + MadMax*” and it will bring up your info. They can search audio and put in a keyword and it’ll produce audio files containing that word. So you see, they could turn you. They own you. And they’ve had this system in place for years. All law enforcement agencies and local offices will eventually have a terminal IMO. They currently want commercial encryption key registration so they can unlock encrypted communications in real time.
Do you really think “profiling” and terrorists’ encrypted Iphones are really about privacy? You don’t think it’s odd that the MSM-promoted profiling and now Apple’s commercial encryption hype coincides with the start of bulk collection and now an initiative for private key registration? Don’t you realize the MSM provides the pretense for seizing rights and violating protections?
The MSM is used to empower security operations. They work together. And That is why I believe Hillary is going to prison. They don’t like being flaunted.