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Posted on 08/04/2013 6:42:40 AM PDT by bamahead
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency’s dominant role as the nation’s spy warehouse has spurred frequent tensions and turf fights with other federal intelligence agencies that want to use its surveillance tools for their own investigations, officials say.
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“The other agencies feel they should be bigger players,” said Mr. Edgar, who heard many of the disputes before leaving government this year to become a visiting fellow at Brown University. “They view the N.S.A. — incorrectly, I think — as this big pot of data that they could go get if they were just able to pry it out of them.”
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The security agency, whose mission is to spy overseas, and the F.B.I., its main partner in surveillance operations, dominate the process as the Justice Department’s main “customers” in seeking warrants from the intelligence court, with nearly 1,800 approved by the court last year.
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Just wait until the FDA, EPA, and IRS get their hands on those goods...
This will ultimately be used against conservatives, Tea partiers and lets not forget Christians.
You know, that’s a serious question - WHO didn’t see this coming. That’s why it should never have been done at all, because the possibility of abuse always was 100.00%.
Who didn’t see this coming? Shoot, it’s probably already here.
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By the time we find out about it, its already too late.
Talk about mission creep!
Yes. Once these totally captured agencies get it you know Obama's OFA will have it - not that they don't have most of it now thanks to Google, Facebook, and the rest of the totalitarian enablers in the high tech world.
The federales have all that phone data
and they still can’t stop the telemarketers
that routinely violate their federal “do not call” list.
Those at the top head Zero's brown shirt agencies. If you don't think they allow indiscriminate monitoring, you are not clued in at all. They obviously openly target political opponents.
This will ultimately be used against conservatives, Tea partiers and lets not forget Christians.
It's been in use some while, and will soon be more extensively used. In the simplest, most inclusive terms, the targets are patriots loyal to the old constitutional republic.
Communism will fail in America, too.
The only questions are how fast it will fail and how many millions will be lost during the collapse.
These are interesting days, in the Chinese blessing sense of the term.
It would appear that only God can slow down this government train.
This is the natural progression of an out of control government. History is replete with such examples.
The Supreme Court needs to shut this down ASAP. Or We the People will.
The SC won't do anything. So I guess that leaves us with one choice.
Revolt is coming.
I agree. We’ve tried holding the line within the system, but we’re dealing with an administration that has no regard for the rule of law, and an ideology that has no morality whatsoever. So our options are becoming fewer and fewer ...
Lots of people have been talking about this for a long time. I, myself, was called an idiot only about six months ago for saying the government was spying on us through social sites. It wasn’t anyone on here who called me an idiot but I was told a few times to get some tin foil.
And most conservatives think the NSA spying machine is just wonderful if it keeps us safe. Like it kept the Boston Marathon watchers safe.
At this day and age we shouldn’t be surprised by anything the government does.
Fat chance.
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