Posted on 06/11/2013 12:49:03 PM PDT by cotton1706
Sen. Lindsey Graham would propose censoring Americans' "snail" mail if he thought it would help protect national security, the South Carolina Republican said Tuesday. But for now, he says he doesn't think it's necessary.
Faced with questions about the disclosure that the National Security Agency has been collecting phone and email records of citizens, Graham pointed to a World War II-era program in which the federal government censored mail. He said it was appropriate at the time and that he would support reinstating the program if it aided security efforts.
"In World War II, the mentality of the public was that our whole way of life was at risk, we're all in. We censored the mail. When you wrote a letter overseas, it got censored. When a letter was written back from the battlefield to home, they looked at what was in the letter to make sure they were not tipping off the enemy," Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told reporters on Capitol Hill. "If I thought censoring the mail was necessary, I would suggest it, but I don't think it is."
The Guardian newspaper revealed last week details of a government surveillance program enacted in response to terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, that secretly collects digital communication data from U.S. citizens. The source who provided the information to The Guardian, a Hawaii-based former government contractor named Edward Snowden, fled to Hong Kong and his whereabouts are currently unknown.
The new details about the program have sparked a debate over civil liberties and the extent of lawful government surveillance. On Tuesday, Graham suggested that Americans should be more willing to give up certain civil liberties to prevent future terrorist attacks.
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A$$WIPE. A domineering pathetic little aging queen. Please go find Barney Frank and leave the rest of us alone.
“Will they pay my bills when they open them?”
No, but if they lose the bill and you end up with a late payment they’ll be happy to pass on the letter with the late payment charge.
“Graham pointed to a World War II-era program in which the federal government censored mail. He said it was appropriate at the time and that he would support reinstating the program if it aided security efforts.
“In World War II, the mentality of the public was that our whole way of life was at risk, we’re all in.
THE DIFFERENCE today is in WWII we went to war to defeat the enemy, thus eliminate that risk. What are they doing today? I don’t know. Seem to be aiding, and abetting the enemy.
Iran declared war on us, and this country took their declaration of war, and said to them “Oh No, You really didn’t mean that”, and that’s where it stood for many years, and now our government under Obama is aiding and abetting Iran’s allies to assume control of the entire ME plus.
They’re all working for themselves and the press. Not the people. I’m done with all of them. Why keep hoping against hope that anything will change? With amnesty we’ll be outnumbered. Something big is going on behind the scenes that even the republicans can’t stop. We’re done - close the lights.
Rest assured, however, once the State gets enough "counter-terrorism" machinery in place, they'll stop pretending that they care about Islamic terror, and focus in on the real threat.
If you don't know who they consider the real threat to be, gentle reader, then go seek out a reflective surface.
Will they pay my bills when they open them?..No, just take your house.
here, like Mr. Boehner, is another gentleman in a position to do America a whole lot of good, and instead he gives us this!?
Can someone in South Carolina please explain how this guy gets reelected???
Anyone?
Who needs to make laws these days anyway? Everything is directed, ordered and bound by regulation traced back to the edict. It’s for our safety...and security ***cough***.
lindsey graham is a domestic terrorist. i stand by it. one of hitler’s yes-men. this whole idea of being at war with “terrorism” has expanded from the obvious threats we can’t call terrorists, to grandma down the street and her grandson jimmy.
hece the new targets dhs bought. all whites on the targets,’btw.
Sen. Lindsey Graham would propose censoring Americans’ “snail” mail if he thought it would help protect national security, the South Carolina Republican said Tuesday.
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But you won’t vote to secure the border, will you?
Graham sounds like a conservative when he’s on Fox, then behind closed doors he votes like a DemonRat. What a poser.
Not until you rout out every damn last Red commie bastard in our government, military, and State Department including John FTA Kerry.
Lindsey Graham and anyone else that suggest that we trade freedom for supposed safety needs to step down now.
/promptly got added to the Main Core...
Lindsey Graham—hereafter known as the Fascist from South Carolina.
For 15 years here I have never been booted off. I will withhold my thoughts on this one.
Faced with questions about the disclosure that the National Security Agency has been collecting phone and email records of citizens, Graham pointed to a World War II-era program in which the federal government censored mail.The United States Congress authorized a declaration of war against the Axis Powers.
As such, there was an implied endgame....when one side of the warring parties surrendered. But the War on Terror is undeclared, against shadowing factions scattered throughout the world. As such, there IS no endgame.
Lindsey Graham and his fellow interventionists want the United States to assume a never-ending state of war, with increasing erosion of our civil liberties.
This position is not sustainable for a free society.
So would mine.
How about censoring our Southern Border asshole!
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