Posted on 06/06/2013 5:53:04 PM PDT by kristinn
The National Security Agency's monitoring of Americans includes customer records from the three major phone networks as well as emails and Web searches, and the agency also has cataloged credit-card transactions, said people familiar with the agency's activities.
The disclosure this week of an order by a secret U.S. court for Verizon Communications Inc.'s phone records set off the latest public discussion of the program. But people familiar with the NSA's operations said the initiative also encompasses phone-call data from AT&T Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp., records from Internet-service providers and purchase information from credit-card providers.
The agency is using its secret access to the communications of millions of Americans to target possible terrorists, said people familiar with the effort.
The NSA's efforts have become institutionalized—yet not so well known to the public—under laws passed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Most members of Congress defended them Thursday as a way to root out terrorism, but civil-liberties groups decried the program.
"Everyone should just calm down and understand this isn't anything that is brand new,'' said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.), who added that the phone-data program has "worked to prevent'' terrorist attacks.
Senate Intelligence Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) said the program is lawful and that it must be renewed by Congress every three months. She said the revelation about Verizon, reported by the London-based newspaper the Guardian, seemed to coincide with its latest renewal.
Civil-liberties advocates slammed the NSA's actions. "The most recent surveillance program is breathtaking. It shows absolutely no effort to narrow or tailor the surveillance of citizens," said Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law expert at George Washington University.
The arrangement with the country's three largest phone companies means that every time the majority of Americans makes a call, NSA
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Respectfully, you should rethink that position.
I just ordered a rose trellis for my garden. I pity anyone who orders a pressure cooker for fall canning.
Just crazy when Alex Jones starts to seem like he knows what is going on.
By the way Alex Jones in this kind of message will probably get a ‘FLAG, somewhere.
What? I needed a new spatula. Don’t misunderstand me, I think what they are doing is outrageous, and another element of tyranny that characterizes the BO administration. That said, they are going to have to track an awful lot of harmless online shopping while they are spying on us.
-PJ
No kidding. I am even afraid to type that word into my computer.
Crazy Maxine Waters is/was right... months ago
Obama has a giant data base of everything on everyone
Now, was Maxine right in warning that come 2016, obama isn’t planning on leaving office?
I wonder how much of this data they used in 2012 election efforts?
I just have a nasty feeling that they are tracking republicans/conservatives. Anyone who dislikes obama and speaks out against him. I feel like I’m living in 1940s Germany.
Thanks for the spam. But it does get old after awhile.
Of course they are. I am sure they are taking names. Lord help us if we ever end up before one of their death panels. No life-saving medicines for the likes of us.
We haven’t had people posing as “trusted newsmen” in our country since 2000 and personally, I haven’t trusted the media since Reagan was president.
They are...trying to evoke a reaction.
Possibly.
What interests me is the motive of the whistleblowers in both these disclosures. We don’t have information yet on the one who leaked to. The Guardian ..but the one who leaked prism is a career Intel officer who is horrified by where this could lead.
Or...is it the same person ...
Pressure cooker. Pressure cooker. Pressuer cooker.
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Then they should also enjoy the info that Amazon screwed up my delivery for a scanner and they have to replace it..
Guess what, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R.-S.C.) approves of Obama’s private info. grab. When are South Carolinians gonna vote this goon out of office? I thought South Carolinians were supposedly conservative voters. http://www.kansascity.com/2013/06/06/4277167/sen-graham-dismisses-verizon-surveillance.html
All I can say is if they refuse to save our lives here, we are saved without their help. Our good Lord made sure of that. I have no fear. They are the ones who should be terrified.
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