I'm pretty sure phone calls, email, internet action taken in this house isn't studied/targeted since a family member works there looking for terrorists. We're just old family members with one of us having worked at the Pentagon years ago. There is no doubt we are true Americans so they wouldn't waste their time on us.
That said, I'd like to see that searching of emails, listening to phone calls and searching for words you say on the internet, go away. They don't have the right to do any of that. They are supposed to get a judge's order to do that but I've read they have special judges set aside to quickly issue the order. I read somewhere they seldom get turned down by these secret judges.
Obama and his Homeland Security is another matter. I'm sure I'm on their list of possible prepper domestic terrorists since I have written so much about prepping on another website. I say nuts to you, Homeland Security.
I do know, some way, every Republican candidate or those considering running, stuff my email box and I didn't knowingly, give any of them but Cruz access to my email. I would bet many of you are also on their lists, too, and you don't know, either, how they got it.
I think the only way I can be free of all this, is lock my door and stay off the internet including stopping emailing and never make a phone call. That's a crummy option and I'm not doing it.
“I’m pretty sure phone calls, email, internet action taken in this house isn’t studied/targeted since a family member works there looking for terrorists.”
Have you ever considered that this may make your information more likely to be prioritized?
After several whistle-blowers from within, I suspect this is the case.
Of course, for all their efforts violating the Constitution, they didn’t even head off the attack on their own headquarters earlier this year...
I wouldn’t lose a bit of sleep over it, Marcella. Full disclosure, my husband retired in 2007 from a Federal law enforcement agency that is charged with gathering intelligence under Homeland Security. We still have many friends who work in different branches of federal law enforcement. They are appalled that people think they spend their days sifting through data, targeting law abiding citizens. Nothing could be further from the truth. The job they do is complex enough without that kind of massive waste of time and resources. Besides, being monumentally stupid and pointless, it would also be impossible to provide the scrutinty that many here feel is a danger to them.