Posted on 09/14/2011 10:10:01 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
Somewhere between Sept. 11 and today, the enemy morphed from a handful of terrorists to the American population at large, leaving us nowhere to run and no place to hide.
Within weeks of the attacks, the giant ears of the National Security Agency, always pointed outward toward potential enemies, turned inward on the American public itself. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, established 23 years before to ensure that only suspected foreign agents and terrorists were targeted by the NSA, would be bypassed. Telecom companies, required by law to keep the computerized phone records of their customers confidential unless presented with a warrant, would secretly turn them over in bulk to the NSA without ever asking for a warrant.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/62999.html#ixzz1XwmzoxTZ
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That’s true. I think you are dealing with more ignorance than stupid in the people who did not understand the government would turn the patriot act against our own citizens and constitutional freedom.
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