Posted on 07/03/2021 6:42:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber
ox News host Tucker Carlson was mocked on social media this week for stating that he had been told that the National Security Agency was reading his private emails and spying on him. The usual suspects called Carlson paranoid, because there are so many checks and balances to assure the feds would never illegally target a vexatious Biden critic. However, on Tuesday, a dissent by Travis LeBlanc, a member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, revealed that one of the NSA’s most intrusive surveillance engines, XKeyscore, may be violating federal law and Americans’ rights and privacy.
In 2013, Edward Snowden leaked documents proving that XKeyscore was the surveillance state’s incarnation of paranoia. What did it take for the NSA to justify vacuuming up Americans’ emails and internet data? Merely detecting “someone searching the web for suspicious stuff.” The peril of that farcical standard was compounded because, as Snowden explained, NSA surveillance tools enabled him to “wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email.” Thanks to its all-encompassing standard of “suspicious,” NSA has “assembled on the order of 20 trillion [email and phone] transactions about U.S. citizens with other U.S. citizens,” according to former NSA senior analyst William Binney. Six months after Snowden’s disclosures began, federal judge Richard Leon issued a ruling denouncing the NSA surveillance regime as “almost Orwellian”: “I cannot imagine a more indiscriminate and arbitrary invasion than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...
Don’t jump to any conclusions here. You haven’t talked to my therapist.
We’ve been sliding down the slope, for years, ever since the left has infiltrated every American institution, and now control most of them. The landing at the bottom is what’ll kill the Republic.
Biden just unveiled his plan for a permanent Democrat gov: the Biden definition of “white supremacy” makes at least 26% of Americans into criminals—probably more. Whatever “they” don’t like is redefined as white supremacy and terrorism. They have that power now.....only a very specific flavor of racism and bigotry is on the Biden menu; it places all of our troubles on the shoulders of white Americans.......
Biden Domestic Terror Strategy Codifies Woke War on Wrongthink
Opinion, by Ben Weingarten, Fellow, Claremont Institute, June 30, 2021
Very scary Newsweek article, I highly recommend it. I’m shocked Newsweek ran it.
When I first joined (no longer) I started receiving Facebook alerts to hook up with individuals in my email address book who had their own Facebook accounts. I thought that was weird.
Bkmk
Presently the Republic lives in name only.
I guess I come out of that one okay. Sometimes FReepers will dogpile you over a small fox pass. Phheeww! Not that I can’t take a little constructive criticism, mind you.
1. Nothing would surprise me Less than to discover what Tucker said was true.
2. Still waiting for evidence. So far all I see is accusations and opinions.
3. We (America) Need The NSA (or something like it). Because there are very bad people/governments out there who do not wish us well.
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