CityCenter: “Did Snowden really tell us anything we didn’t already know?”
We suspected the government was tracking sites like Free Republic and collecting all email traffic, but now we know they almost certainly do. Oh, it’s not like they read everything. They just collect and store it all for later use.
As Snowden explained in his interview, the infrastructure for Big Brother is being laid, and the only thing that prevents that infrastructure from being used for nefarious purposes (if it already isn’t), is a policy change.
I’ll give Bolton the benefit of the doubt at this point and say the information is only used to combat terrorism. However, Bolton apparently doesn’t understand the immense power we are giving the government. Frankly, I just don’t trust the government to never use that power against US citizens, even if it’s being used more carefully right now.
After the latest IRS and DOJ scandals how can you have any doubts that they could and would use it against American citizens and most likely already are?
Terrorists used temporary phones which they buy at the corner store and which they throw away after a brief period of use. Totally untraceable. We know this. We've known this for over 10 years.
NSA wasn't tracing them. NSA was tracing US citizens who own things like homes, land lines, long-term cell phone contracts, etc.
It's not about terrorism. It's about controlling Americans.
agreed!