To: kidd
i was thinking that too. Trying to divert blame to Bush again.
83 posted on
06/06/2013 6:41:47 PM PDT by
newnhdad
(Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
To: newnhdad
i was thinking that too. Trying to divert blame to Bush again.
It was Bush that tried to give us the Total Information Awareness project, that tracked a helluva lot more than what PRISM seems to track.
This is a part of why I don't trust either party. Bush fully embraced everything Clinton was privately doing, tried to one-up him with TIA, had part of it struck down by Congress, and yet it's still alive in kicking in 2007 and now in 2013 under Obama.
It may have a smaller scope than TIA, but it doesn't take much web traffic, phone call logs, text logs, VOIP logs, etc. to figure out your personality - who you associate with, what interests you have, etc.
It's quite chilling to me to see the things being talked about in 2001 and 2002 being played out here in 2013, even after Congress supposedly killed them off (they didn't do squat, just caused the government to split it up into a bunch of smaller projects/databases).d
A lot of FReepers spoke out against this stuff in 2001 and 2002, and were shouted down over calls to do anything to get the terrorists or prevent another attack.
Obama gets in the White House, and all of the sudden those FReepers that were ridiculed or attacked in 2001/2002 are now seen as prophets.
To: newnhdad
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