"No big deal. We want to know what Dems are saying
about me. We already know what our enemies are saying."
Posted on 06/10/2013 11:18:02 AM PDT by Liz
Congress' blackberries go through Verizon or ATT. Through a blanket seizing of these communications, the NSA is permanently intercepting and storing privileged material. A senior Senate staffer told Breitbart News, "Senators and staff all use Verizon phones. So the executive branch is monitoring the meta data of the Senate. This seems like a violation of the Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution."
"The calling data that is gathered can be more invasive than knowing the content of the call. One can figure out much about a person's personal habits, preferences and line of work from knowing how often and patterns of calls," he said.
Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) questioned AG Eric Holder last Thursday at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing about whether the NSA spied on Congress. “Mr. Attorney General, could you assure to us that no phone inside the Capitol that would give a future executive branchunique leverage over the legislature?" he asked.
Holder responded, “With all due respect, Senator, I don’t think this is an appropriate setting for me to discuss that issue. I’d be more than glad to come back in a — in an appropriate setting to discuss the issues that you have raised."
Kirk, a Naval intelligence officer, pressed Holder, “....the correct answer would be to say no, we stayed within our lane, and I’m assuring you we did not spy on members of Congress.”
Holder remained defiant. "There has been no intention to do anything of that nature — that is, to spy on members of Congress, to spy on members of the Supreme Court.”
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Appropriations Committee chair, said Kirk raised “a very important point," and said a classified hearing would be in order to discuss the issue further.
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"No big deal. We want to know what Dems are saying
about me. We already know what our enemies are saying."
Hmmm. That may explain the Roberts decision.
Interesting, Holder was asked about the legislature and he said that there was no intention to spy upon the Supreme Court.
His Freudian slip is showing.
SO NOW WE KNOW WHY ROBERTS SUPPORTED THE HEALTHCARE BILL!!!!!!
“The calling data that is gathered can be more invasive than knowing the content of the call.
Hmmm. Wonder what that means?
Exactly. Roberts. Lindthey Graham. All of Congress:
“Want to just ask, could you assure to us that no phones inside the Capitol were monitored of members of Congress that would give a future executive branch, if they started pulling this kind of thing up, would give them unique leverage over the legislature?”
“With all due respect, Senator, I don’t think this is an appropriate setting for me to discuss that issue,” Holder replied. “I’d be more than glad to come back in an appropriate setting to discuss the issues that you have raised, but in this open forum..”
Kirk interrupted Holder. “The correct answer would be, ‘No, we stayed within our lane and I’m assuring you we did not spy on members of Congress,” he said.
yes the roberts decision/radical-mind-change has to be looked into/asked about.
hell EVERYTHING is in question now - even more than before.
it just gets worserer and worserer.
Heh-—nice catch. Holder’s “I confess” slip must have the Supremes a bit edgy.
The clintons were pikers with their FBI files.
” Interesting, Holder was asked about the legislature and he said that there was no intention to spy upon the Supreme Court.
His Freudian slip is showing.”
And the Marxian blouse is slipping..
Can someone 'shoop the obama logo onto this?
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don’t add you to the list...
And, now another example of unfair and unwise criticism aimed at the high court. This time, the target is Chief Justice John Roberts. And the warning is issued by Sen. Patrick Leahy, (D-Vermont) and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. During a speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Leahy lashed out against the Chief Justice, and warned he would be branded a “conservative activist” if Roberts and a majority of the Court declare ObamaCare unconstitutional. He even warned that the legacy of the Chief Justice would be tarnished if the court doesn’t “do the right thing” and keep ObamaCare in place.
This attack on the Chief Justice is absurd and unwarranted.
[ME: Wanna make a bet?]
As I told Megyn Kelly on FOX News today, the comments by Sen. Leahy are an outrageous bullying tactic – an effort to meddle into the internal operations of the nation’s highest court.
[ME: It worked :( ]
This certainly explains why Rahm Emanuel and Valerie Jarret were typing text messages on their Blackberrys but rather than sending them, they were passing the phones to one another to read at an Obama press conference.
B/c not a modicum of concern for US ntl security has ever been uttered by this craven WH crowd.
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The Times Square SUV bomber was nailed by a falafel stand operator.
The Boston bomber was caught by the homeowner outside for a cigarette. The Tsarnaev brothers had public YouTubes and FaceBooks--and the dead one had a wish list on Amazon.
Both the underwear and the shoe bomber were airborne--got past airport security---- and were foiled by observant passengers and crew.
The 9/11 terrorists were in and out of the US and even took flying lessons here. One terrorist made it past namby- pamby Port Authority security and disappeared never to be seen again.
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Yes, snooping did catch Gen David Petraeus and Tea Party and patriot groups.....but no terrorists.
Anybody remember from the Watergate lexicon the "non-denial denial"?
In other words, yes they did spy on Congress and the Supremes, Holder knows it will come out, and that he figures intention is harder to prove.
Hmmm. That may explain the Roberts decision.
That may explain why the supremes have dodge the BHO II eligibility issue, as well as the judges in various jruisdictions that have refused to look into the forgery and stolen SSN matter...
they know the snooping scandal will be met with a yawn from Americans. the press may get bent.. but they’ll get over it.
same with the IRS scandal, as they targeted conservatives... the group feared / despised the most by the media.
both scandals were fed to the media, deliberately offered up to occupy the attention of the national press.
but why? what are they trying to hide?
benghazi and the revelation that it actually was a kidnap / ransom plan hatched by the white house to help 0bama’s chances going into the election.
and since someone died as a result of that plan... there are very serious criminal charges as a result
It's very simple. "No" is unclassified. Anything else isn't. And anything else is what we're worried about, isn't it?
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