[Gene Eric]

The legislation was approved by Congress in 2007

Bitch at the Congressional douche bags, not the NSA.

[nathanbedford]

Both the Washington Post and Guardian claim that the NSA has “direct” access to the system belonging to nine Internet companies, in order to monitor data. That information was required in order to “effectively plan, direct and conduct detection and monitoring of illegal narcoterrorist activities”,

Like the orange drink Tang grew out of the space program, this is just one more spinoff from our dubious war on drugs but this spinoff could be poisonous.

When are we going to stop waging war against ourselves with ever more Star Wars weapons? We have already used drones, what's next, nuclear weapons? When will we finally decide that the war on drugs is killing our democracy and has already gone a long way toward killing our Constitution?

[rockinqsranch]

“Bitch at the Congressional douche bags, not the NSA.”

That would be “Bitch at the DEMOCRAT Congressional douche bags.....” as THAT’s the year the Democrats took over Congress. Oh I’m sure there were some RINO’s involved in the “yays”, but they are Democrat’s incognito.