Posted on 06/11/2013 5:44:52 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
House Speaker John Boehner today called NSA leaker Edward Snowden a “traitor” who put Americans at risk by releasing classified information to the media. “He’s a traitor,” the highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives said in an extensive interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. “The disclosure of this information puts Americans ... continued here
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As observed from reading the earlier threads on this topic, Feinstein has her fans on this forum [they masquerade as “conservatives” here], they too utter the word “treason”, and then their owner,the one and only Senator from California, who daily shreds the Constitution, without a peep of desent from her puppets affirms their action.
My understanding is that the NSA has post-911 been collecting records regarding which telephone numbers have been connected to one another by calls. If any particular telephone number can be related to a person involved in the planning of a terrorist attack, I think it’s obvious why it might be helpful to have information about what other telephone numbers have engaged in calls with that number even though none of the calls have ever been recorded.
Stuff you don’t know regarding Petraeus.
Don’t know when it’s going to be released, and if it’s going to be here. But it’s gonna flip some lids.
I expect the Constitution be followed by our government ALWAYS. What part of the Fourth Amendment did you miss?
Your support of this unconstitutional Bravo Sierra puts YOU in the "all enemies, foreign and domestic" camp.
You seem to have missed my question/post, so I’ll post it again...
So are you officially willing to go on record at FR stating that Ben Franklin was wrong about security vs. liberty and who deserves what?
Simple yes or no question here.
With that statement it is obvious Bonehead is bought and paid for.
I understand the methodology. It’s still unconstitutional.
Newsflash. This is no longer a democrat or republican issue. If a person cannot defend to save their own privacy rights, you are under some elusion that your government is very productive and governing with integrity. They used info from the IRS against citizens.
Mr. Boehner and all of the others took a oath to uphold the constitution. Now, we seem to be a time to where we see it’s no longer right to do so. The powers-to-be just flaunt their abuses in front of us.
I have not heard one politician on TV say that they are upset that the American people were not told about this secret data collecting. Who wants to be spied on. It takes away your freedom Spying on citizens is un-American. Mr. Speaker and the others seem to think their agencies there just do a fine job as we see the government is too big, with no oversight making corruption even more embodied into the system.
What I believe that any violation of the 4th Amendment supersedes this illegitimate spying laws. I am grateful the man told us. I didn’t know they were doing this. I am so angry to hear people say, oh, you knew they were snooping. No, I did not, jerks.
When leakers told us things under Bush, they were referred to as whistleblowers. With Obama, they are traitors. So, proves to me many put their government first. It’s wrong to allow our liberties to be given away with any dissent.
This Speaker is Obama’s best friend.
Surely, but there are criminal penalties in place for most if not all of your examples. Internet postings, not so much. Medical records Doctors are, as of now, severely restricted in releasing them. E-mail, I guess it could be hacked but I sure don't want the government to be able to read mine without a warrant. Snail mail. Strict laws against tampering with the mail. Legal matters. Public record but your attorney can't disclose your private conversations, etc. etc.
Anyway that's kinda the point isn't it? If a private individual did what the Government is doing or is capable of doing, then it would be a criminal act. Government, not so much.
Here the government is only collecting information that the phone companies, etc. are themselves collecting. There are people working for Costco who from their records know more about me than anyone at NSA. I have three telephone numbers. I'm sure that NSA and the phone company have records which will show what other numbers have been called with those phones. I have no fear that someday someone either at the phone company or at NSA might (after a wasteful investigation) discover that I called my brother yesterday.
But, I'm not engaged in any terrorist activities.
This kind of stuff scares me because there is such a wide disconnect between the government and the people.
This disclosure puts Boehner at risk, if the information they have, and possibility used to get their way, ever becomes public.
You don’t even see what is wrong with your position do you.
Well, I believe that Medicare is unconstitutional, far more unconstitutional than the warehousing of phone records.
The courts disagree with us.
Principled positions have no political alignment. I don't care what or who this guy is. He exposed the wholesale trampling of our Constitution by our government.
I'll say it again:
Isn't it time we stop treating self-governance like a professional sports league?
No he doesn’t see what is wrong with his position. And apparently many other “conservatives” don’t either.
So are you... you drunk sumbich (boehner)!
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I know. That’s exactly what is wrong with conservatism today. Half the so called conservatives hold traditional leftist views and demand they be called conservative.
Tau Food, seems to be a anti- Paul person from what I’ve read.
Maybe 100% on that.. You are wasting your energy.
That's just your guess on the government's opinion of you now.
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