Hussein’s regime exists to protect Jihad, worldwide.
Exactly. How many of these terrorist murders have now been missed as they collect data on 300,000,000 innocent Americans? Boston bombers were tipped off and we still missed it. These two travelled to the Middle East and were clearly radicalized. They were missed too. Fortunately they know how many times I called my buddy in Denver though.
We had literal warnings on the Tsarnaevs from Russia and they were still ignored.
The father of the underwear bomber went to the US embassy and warned them about his son. The only reason we didn’t end up with hundreds dead there was because the bomb failed. (The system worked!!!!)
Time for a little Muslim profiling if you ask me!
Even that good Jeanine pirro was calling for metadata and giving up privacy
Reactionary I guess
No. Especially when the clock boys are celebrated at the White House and the neighbors don’t want the same fate as his whistle blower.
Show us where metadata has worked anyway
No. Figure it out.
They were tinkering in the garage late at night like a Monty Python group noisily out in the woods building a Trojan horse
I love ya Ted but who says the FBI didn’t already know the shooters and their sleeper cell? They didn’t even bother to dust the apt for fingerprints. Are you kidding me?
Finally, somebody busts through the nonsense associated with intelligence gathering.
The US now has 17 major intelligence agencies, as well as over 100 federal police agencies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_law_enforcement_in_the_United_States
Relatively speaking, they are so terribly overbuilt and redundant that they have run out of enemies to spy on, so instead have turned against the American people.
The Patriot Act is a great example. Created so that the government can pursue and fight our enemies, perhaps 99% of the Act is used solely against Americans, the overwhelming majority of which are not suspected of any crime, though particularly, and unconstitutionally, used against common crime.
It is inefficient to spend tens of millions of dollars to pursue a single petty thief. It needs to stop, or at least return to some semblance of cost efficiency.
Perhaps the final straw was the creation of the vast information storage facility in Utah. The “Utah Data Center”, which was originally going to be called the “Massive Data Repository”, but which sounded way too creepy.
Anyone’s guess as to how many decimal places someone would have to go to find *anything* useful stored there, a microscopic needle in a haystack the size of Kansas. A great value at $1.5 billion, a laughingly low approximate cost, in reality 10 or more times greater and growing.
Yes, we need to spy on our enemies. No, we do not need to spy on all Americans, like the STASI used to try to do to East Germans. Efficiency matters.
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Ted misses the point of bulk collection.
It is to have the data available to trace, once we get a lead.
His other point is the valid one.
We have a President with policies that are designed to ignore the most critical leads.
The reason for having the bulk data readily available is TIME, to prevent the attacks.
Otherwise its just another after the fact investigative tool.
I was also gonna say something about Dondi.
Never mind...
Ted Cruz: You are right that when we have a terrorist, when we have a cell phone, we're going to want to track it down and track it down quickly. And the testimony of the intelligence agencies was that the USA Freedom Act increased the ability to target the bad guys, that the old bulk metadata program that swept in your and my information, but it wasn't all-encompassing. It excluded a significant number of phone numbers, and so it made it less effective. And what the intelligence agencies told Congress is the USA Freedom Act would have greater penetration. They would be more likely to stop a terrorist with the tools in the USA Freedom Act. And so facts matter, and those are the facts, and you asked if I agreed that we have a real risk of another terrorist attack in America, and absolutely, we do. And I think that risk is exacerbated by President Obama's indefensible attempts to bring tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees to America. And I would note that is a particular irony of Marco Rubio's attack ad directed at me on national security, because one of the elements of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of 8 bill that Marco Rubio authored was to give Barack Obama more authority to admit Syrian refugees. And it would change the law, if it had passed, it would have changed the law so that you no longer require an individualized assessment of a refugee, but rather, it would have given Obama the authority to make a blanket admission of Syrian refugees, and it required no background checks whatsoever. Now you want to talk about a threat to national security, Marco Rubio and Chuck Schumer giving Barack Obama a blank check to admit as many Syrian refugees as he wants with no background checks, that is a profound threat to national security, and that is why Rubio's superPAC is trying to change the subject and attack precisely where they know that Senator Rubio's record is vulnerable, because his amnesty bill weakened our national security.
Collecting data on 300 million Americans is going to get you nothing in combating terrorism.
Common sense,(3 million vs 300 million) reason and logic dictates collecting data and closely monitoring 3 million Muslims will get much closer to stopping their murderous islamic ideological cult, all this nonsense goes on in the name of political correctness, fairness vs profiling, since when do we treat the enemy fairly?
Since the progressive liberal democrat communist party has taken control of our Republic that’s when.
Cruz is right... the NSA doesn't have to rifle though the personal information of American citizens. In the Boston Bomber case all they would have to do is listen to the Russians who called them three times to warn them about the family.
With San Bernrdino it could have been prevented or defused IF neighbors hadn't been afraid of being called xenophobic. Lives could have been saved if California allowed easy conceal carry. One man shooting back could have saved many lives.
These deaths and more to come are an consequence of liberal stupidity... and of perverse liberal incentives for radical Muslims.
Yep. The government’s whining “it’s getting harder to spy on everybody” is simply butt-covering for its own ineptitude. Actually, making it harder to spy on everybody so that the government simply has to give up on it would increase security by forcing the intel agents to get off their butts and do some actual investigative work on actual suspicious targets instead of just sitting in front of the computers.
Spying on Americans has nothing to do with preventing terrorism. It has everything to do with finding out who’s willing to oppose the regime.
Likely even less rigorous. She had a passport, a school record in Pakistan and a father/family living in Saudi Arabia.