Note to rickmichaels: this is not directed at YOU but anybody who is more focused on the “leaker” than what was leaked. ;-)
While a lot of talking heads are focusing on the “leaker,” I think it’s time we turn attention to what was LEAKED:
Here’s what the government has obtained, and MUCH MORE more (let your imagination run wild):
A GUN REGISTRY
A list of all gun owners and everything they say, think, do and buy
A list of all pro-lifers and everything they say, think, do and buy
A list of all conservative groups
A list of where all meet and when
A list of EVERY SINGLE COMMUNICATION between any of them,
all their financial transactions
all the websites they visit
everything they say on a conservative forum
everything about their kids
where they go
what they do
when their kids go to school and what time they get home from band practice...
EVERYTHING.
ETC ETC ETC INFINITY
Oh, you say it takes a SEARCH WARRANT to see all this??? HAHAHA Ok, sure. I’ll play along.
(We’ll pretend the last few weeks of IRS abuses weren’t exposed to us).
Who do you think APPOINTS the judges that approve the warrants?
It was a judge who authorized the AP surveillance of 20 phones and 100 journalists...for no good reason.
Think that won’t happen to the Tea Party, etc?
GET REAL anybody who thinks this.
And by the way, we are one Supreme Court Justice away from outlawing the Fourth Amendment all together.
You truly think that little piece of paper will protect us from the greatest temptation to totalitarian power this world has ever known?
If so, you’re sure a trusting soul. Just look at that little piece of paper called the Constitution if you believe that.
http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/
It explains the value of "metadata" & dovetails nicely with your enumeration:
A list of all gun owners
A list of all pro-lifers
A list of all conservative groups
The government knows more about you than you do.