Posted on 08/20/2013 5:51:05 PM PDT by John W
WASHINGTONThe National Security Agencywhich possesses only limited legal authority to spy on U.S. citizenshas built a surveillance network that covers more Americans' Internet communications than officials have publicly disclosed, current and former officials say.
The system has the capacity to reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic in the hunt for foreign intelligence, including a wide array of communications by foreigners and Americans. In some cases, it retains the written content of emails sent between citizens within the U.S. and also filters domestic phone calls made with Internet technology, these people say.
Details of these surveillance programs were gathered from interviews with current and former intelligence and government officials and people from companies that help build or operate the systems, or provide data. Most have direct knowledge of the work.
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How quickly you've forgotton the Impeachment of The Kenyan on 56 Counts, 782 Indictments against Gangsta Inc for racketeering, fraud, murder, blackmail, and ice cream theft! The "process" worked properly and legally, and thus incarcerated ZERO's entire Administration for High Treason! All Hail to the US Constitution and the righteous indignation of Congress! The Republic is SAVED!
Wait....I wuz dreaming. But I think Boehner farted in Zero's general direction. Nope. The case was just the opposite. (But Issa's still PO'd at Holder.)
Allow me to explain.
If we stand up for ourselves and demand that the GOP stop the libs from Going fill metal Big Brother on us, they will lose their elections and the libs will go fullmetal Big Brother on us. So we have to remain silent and let them allow all this and even help it happen, otherwise we will be in trouble.
If you look at the ‘logic’ employed by the GOP sycophants, you will see the above is exactly what is happening.
The government lied to us? I am shcoked, shocked!
It started before Bush and practically every person reading this has voted for their police state along the way in one or another way.
The government is reading your mail.
If your email was a stamped mailed letter, the NSA would be in prison.
The NSA is only a scintilla of a technicality away from being felonious.
Eh?
The poster commented no one was doing anything about all this BS. I eas using sarcasm to basically explain what they are doing.
Okidoke, thx
How come I don't beleive that bolded section?
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- UNDER OPANSYCARE :
Obama’s FED THUGS can and will enter your homes and your businesses without a warrant if :
- #1 - You are a smoker
- #2 - You own firearms
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- “We have to pass it to see what is in it!”
— (the Speaker) Nancy Pelosi
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Why the assumption that the NSA is only looking for ‘foreign intelligence’?
Apparently they can read the personal emails of leading Republicans and conservatives and then leak that information to the IRS, DHS, FBI, DNC, and the media.
Not surprised, probably more detail to come.
BOHICA!
BOHICA
Can I get someone else added to the list if I threaten to rat you out to the mods?
Nope. People have to do their own threatening.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3064092/posts
Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011
The Washington Post ^ | Ellen Nakashima
Posted on Sunday, September 08, 2013 6:59:34 AM by originalbuckeye
The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agencys use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately for Americans communications in its massive databases, according to interviews with government officials and recently declassified material.
In addition, the court extended the length of time that the NSA is allowed to retain intercepted U.S. communications from five years to six years and more under special circumstances, according to the documents, which include a recently released 2011 opinion by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, then chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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