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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And no doubt you would do it too, you P.O.S.
Bastard Graham, like the rest of the Congress,
and Islam, is not under the DeathYOKE of ObamaCARE.
So why believe him.
THERE ARE TWO AMERICAs.
Patriots. and the US Congress allied to Islam and al Qaeda.
What happened to S. Carolina? Did they run out of tar and feathers?
But if it was censored the mail would need to be identified by placing a strip of tape on it saying “Geoffnet” (”opened” in the original German).
@GrahamBlog @LindseyGrahamSC
Both are valid if twitter users would like to join me inviting the pathetic coward to become a democrat or resign.
LOL! Yours is one of the best comments I’ve seen on FR in some time! Bravo!
Just, wow. This guy is a Republican. Is there ANY level of the government overlords that Graham doesn’t like? Any?
He’s fallen for the democrats line that our rights are not absolute. But WE have denied the government the power to infringe:
CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW. Apparently, to Lindsey this is nuanced.
If I thought Lindsey Graham had any socially redeeming value, I would suggest it.
Let’s start with Graham’s communications -
let’s require every communication he sends or receives be posted online for all to see.
How would you like that, Lindsey, you POS?
Will they pay my bills when they open them?
“Why, if I could place a cylinder phonograph inside every horseless carriage, dadgum it, I would!”
“If I thought herding the Jews into camps was necessary, I would suggest it.”
These guys are more dangerous then the taliban.
senator clueless. Censoring information coming from soldiers in the field outside the US is not even in the same solar system was looking at everyone’s email, phone calls, web postings. Even in WWII FDR, the commie, did not censor mail between people within the US or monitor their phone calls.
Even if I would concede that we are at war, and I will not do so, their are a lot more productive uses of government to win this war. How about kicking out all the mooselims who we are at war with and are not citizens?
PS - Note to NSA. I do not respect this government and wish to state on the record, I would Texas to leave the union, I want a divorce on grounds of spousal abuse and breached contract.
JAGass.
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