Posted on 11/21/2023 7:41:53 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
Even Democrats are pushing back against Biden’s police state.
US Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is blowing the whistle on a secretive surveillance program that permits federal, state, local and Tribal law enforcement agencies to surveil over a trillion domestic phone records annually.
On Sunday, Sen. Wyden sent a letter to the Department of Justice warning the Data Analytical Services, formerly known as Hemisphere Project, illegally authorizes government agencies to track, monitor Americans’ calls and analyze the phone records of everyday people who are not suspected of committing any crime, including victims of crimes.
The Democrat lawmaker called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to publicly disclose all documents related to the Hemisphere phone surveillance program. While the documents are not classified, the Justice Department has categorized them as “Law Enforcement Sensitive” to prevent them from being publicly released
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Dr. Johnny Fever was right...
Johnny:
[after hearing the sirens] It’s the phone cops. They know what I did here today.
Venus:
What are you talking about?
Johnny:
They’re coming to get me, man!
Venus:
That’s paranoia, man!
Johnny:
Wake up, sucker, this is the phone company we’re talking about! They see everything, they know everything, they got their own covert police force! I’m probably wired for sound right now! I gotta get out of here!
Venus:
Johnny!
Johnny:
Don’t use my name!
“We need Trump in office so he can end this travesty.”
Sadly, President Trump enabled this when he reauthorized the ill-named Patriot act.
Incredible. So it started under Obama in 2013.
Blatantly unconstitutional.
I think that was Congress that reauthorized.
Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Matt Gaetz and Marjorie TG often bring such topic to the fore, so that the general public can look more closely, but they cannot catch it all.
Congress passes bills. The President has the Executive authority to authorize or reauthorize a bill.
It expires again in 30 days
Never thought I’d agree with Wyden.
Welcome to my phone records... I’ve made less than 20 voice calls in 2023...
I wonder if Verizon and T-Mobile offer greater privacy protection?
What about texts? Are they also included in phone records?
We need to Mask Up Again!
I can only hope that some FedMob bureaucratic slave will be required to listen to every phone conversation I’ve had.
Why should I be the only one to suffer?
Back the blue
Oh Oh...
I'm toast...
Guess I'll be in those cattle cars with the rest of FR...
I think the government has all of our conversations on record using voice-to-text technology.
Everything you say and do is recorded and sent through Fusion Centers to the basement computers in the huge National Senseless Association in Utah.
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