Look, if they can stop the Nigeria scammers and moneypac dirtbags, I’ll think they’re doing their job. Otherwise it’s just a big boondoogle so the government to spy on the Tea Party.
Ben Franklin dealt with this issue 200 years ago - “Those who would sacrifice freedom for security will soon have neither.”
Remember this is coming from the same people who,
1) Illegally shipped guns into Mexico in order to blame the 2nd Amendment in a scandal called Fast and Furious.
2) This is coming from the same group of people that used the IRS to target conservative groups in IRS Gate.
3) This is coming from the same group that is now admitted to shipping weapons into Syria to the very same people that killed 3000 people on September 11th, 2001. Which is better known as Benghazi.
4) This is also coming from the same group that is leaving the border wide open in a post 911 world.
This bill is about the NSA spying on political enemies and not real terrorist that are burning down the Middle East.
Remember the DHS just had a meeting not too long ago (month or so?) about “Domestic” terrorist that are now considered the #1 threat.
So who are these “domestic” terrorist that DHS says is the #1 enemy. Hint it is not ISIS or Al Qaeda.
It’s returning Veterans, gun owners, Tea Party and conservatives.
This is even though, according to the FBI Crime stats, as a group have the lowest record of crime. They consist largely of law abiding citizens.
That is what this bill is about.
I sure hope Rand Paul and the rest of you are right. Personally though I think giving up NSA is unilateral disarmament.
What a bunch of bullcrap. If there was a serious threat, Der dept of zee homeland security wouldn’t have time to think of tea, to raid Gibson guitars, to look for counterfeit watches and movies... etc.
And they don’t get it both ways. They don’t get to build a surveillance state because of the terrorist threat, and simultaneously import hundreds of thousands of moslems from conflict zones. Pick one.
Shut the whole thing down!
What does the NSA actually do besides gather vast quantities of data on American citizens? How much of their job is blatantly unconstitutional? Why can’t the constitutional parts of their job be done by the FBI, CIA and other intelligence organs? No Such Agency really isn’t our friend, people have been pointing this out for a long time. It never should have been formed, really should be dismantled, and given how much dirt they surely have on lawmakers it will never be touched.
It’ll never go dark. We may crack down on them (ha, never) but they’ll pop up under a new name and continue to document every breath we take.
Sorry Debra, but the attackers were stopped not by NSA eavesdropping but by a Texas police officer that proved to be a much better shot with his sidearm than most police officers.
Seriously, I don't understand why Townhall still carries Debra Saunders columns. She may have been a conservative columnist at some point, but somewhere along the way she fell so deeply in love with big brother that she probably can't even think of a single government program she still opposes.
I see they have progressive statist constitution ignoring RINOs at Townhall now that Michele Malkin is gone.
There is no reason for the NSA to be bulk collecting all of the phone data on every US citizen. None. It has zipola to do with national security.
They can’t keep getting blank checks forever. In fact, is their budget even publicly available? You can’t leave it to government agencies to regulate themselves. Cutting off the funds is a great negotiation tactic.
That attack was stopped by one brave armed person. The NSA didn't have diddly to do with it.
Amid all this talk of who’s spying on whom, one occasionally wonders just how many highly-paid man/hours are utterly wasted by all this nosey-Parker silliness.
Isn’t it just conceivable that we might spend this money more wisely and use the time more efficiently?
How much do we really need to know about the emails of Mr. and Mrs. Smith’s high school-age daughter?
Sieg Heil, Debbie.
This woman is the San Franscico Chronicle’s idea of a conservative columnist.