The point was, the ability to use the system on our foreign enemies (and friends) has been compromised.
No, it is neither constitutional or right to spy on citizens in this manner.
And your statement about the author is simply wrong.
“The point was, the ability to use the system on our foreign enemies (and friends) has been compromised”
Then maybe they shouldn’t have illegally spied on Americans. If you don’t use your toys right, they get taken away.
Besides, they are not even slightly doing this to protect us from terrorists. If that was the case the border wouldn’t be wide open, we wouldn’t be funding Al Qeida in several countries. We wouldn’t have increased moslem immigration 5 fold since 9/11. We wouldn’t have flooded the Mexican cartels with machine guns in order to impugn American gun owners. We wouldn’t specify TEA as the stand in “terrorist group” in every training scenario run these days. The FBI and Army wouldn’t have purged their training of every negative reference to Islam.
If you are doing all THAT, don’t come to me with a case of the fainting vapors about how Snowden, or I, are making the country less safe by rejecting that the NSA and DOD should have the right to turn their antennae inward upon US. It’s pure 100% gold plated BS.
fossil
Girlene is right, this Ann Marie is trying to be dramatic
and so what, the US wasn’t using the system on the Taliban, the palistinians, mainland China or on our real enemies but on us and on Israel, France, Germany
it was fully expected that we would spy on our enemies, but on ourselves unConstitutionally?
I am glad Snowden did what he did
He alerted real Americans to the depravity of their government
Ann Marie and you ought to acknowledge this