Report: Gov't scooping up Verizon phone records

MyWay ^ | 6/6/13

[Evil Slayer]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Security Agency has been collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order, according to a report in Britain's Guardian newspaper.

The order was granted by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on April 25 and is good until July 19, the newspaper reported Wednesday. The order requires Verizon, one of the nation's largest telecommunications companies, on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the U.S. and between the U.S. and other countries.

[COUNTrecount]

ECHELON

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

[PghBaldy]

True. Associations then lead to who to monitor.

[caww]

I think it's not so much the attempts to intercept terrorist planning...for that needs to be....but Obama is vacuuming up ‘everything’ in order to use and “store” that data collected which has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorists planning.

[caww]

I’m storing your list if you don’t mind....

What was once considered conspiracy talk is here:

..NDAA
..Patriot Act
..IRS Targeting
..TSA Groping
..Surveillance Drones
..Spying on the Press
..Webs of Cameras
..Bio-metric Databases
..Facial Recognition
..Militarization of law enforcement
..Attacks on second amendment
..Massive Voter fraud
..Transparency Clampdown
..Electronic Surveillance of American Citizens

[miliantnutcase]

The patriot act was a colossal blunder by Bush. I can’t forgive him for that.

[from occupied ga]

The patriot act was a colossal blunder by Bush

A blunder implies that he didn't know what the implications would be. Bush defined the RINO liberal big government republican. I think he knew quite well what he was doing when he signed it.

[soycd]

Oh I agree that zero and his henchpeople want all they can get for their power plays. His efforts of going against Americans make the clintons look like pikers.

[caww]

....”What we don’t know about, is probably worse”....

Twenty years ago they had equipment they could attach to your telephone line and/or against any outside wiring...and hear everything being said in any room in your home.

Does anybody believe that a wooden or brick walled home is going to stop the ability to use drones with equipment that can disconnect...hear...and or gather data from any communication device in your home?

[miliantnutcase]

I’m sure McCain was right there with him salivating at his chance to vote for it. Ugh...

[dragnet2]

Bookmark

[dragnet2]

Have they used the excuse, “This was legal under Bush’s Patriot act” yet?

Gezzzz

[dragnet2]

What was once considered conspiracy talk is here:

I remember the posts very well....About the tin foil, calling people conspiracy theorist, etc, etc..

There were people on here defending corrupt gov, the IRS, the Patriot Act etc...

Those people are as rare as public pay phones now...

They all headed for the tall grass.

[Grampa Dave]

“Twenty years ago they had equipment they could attach to your telephone line and/or against any outside wiring...and hear everything being said in any room in your home.”

We are in the midst of a total repainting of our house. The general contractor said that we should remove the AT&T/PacBell cable and junction boxes since we now use Comcast.

So the painter removed the boxes. He did install jobs for Dish/Direct and a landline phone company for a few years. He removed the boxes and said he couldn’t believe all of the Cr@$ in the boxes from a governor on the DSL to other stuff which really had no function on a home phone box. They had installed a metal plate inside the box with special screw heads to keep owners and non AT&T guys from getting into the box’s wiring.

[caww]

Bo simply is doing what he said he would do....his past supports all this he's doing now...we are not surprised these things are occurring...he will, has, and will continue to ignore, sidestep, mow over, and outright bypass the constitution and anything which stands in the way of bringing this nation to submit under ‘the Global Agenda’....which is the territory he's operating from.

I say this because our nations citizens ares the ONLY nation with the will and desire to maintain their Independence from the Global Agenda....but that is fast changing now as the indoctrination of our citizens, and open doors to the hoards has pretty much taken the will and desire of the people down...there are more of them now then there are of us. The few of us who remain can easily be found out and brought into submission through this data collecting....it isn't just the data they seek...this goes much further than that IMO.

[servantboy777]

Cool. But remember, “If you see something, say something.” lol

[dragnet2]

Well a number of us think the way you do, but there was a loudmouthed FR contingent who thought increasing govt's powers under Bush and the GOP was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Fools.

Where are they now?

Those biggov deceitful frauds ran for the tall grass really fast..

[clintonh8r]

Fedgov needs this information to be able to stop terror threats. You know, like they stopped the Boston Marathon terror threat......

[dragnet2]

The patriot act was a colossal blunder by Bush. I can’t forgive him for that.

Bush was a GD disaster...

Some of us told anyone who'd listen what this cheet meant...While they betrayers promised this would never be directed at or used against Americans.

How predictable was all this?

[dragnet2]

Bush defined the RINO liberal big government republican. I think he knew quite well what he was doing when he signed it.

RINO my butt...Lets not minimize what Bush did.

That SOB intentionally left our borders wide open during war time as a conga-line of millions marched into the U.S., while he celebrated Cinco de Mayo up in the White House.

In fact it was Bush, who AFTER 911 welcomed in more Muslims than the previous two decades.

I could easily go on...

[NFHale]

Why specifically Verizon?