Posted on 02/02/2018 10:42:42 PM PST by TBP
Undifferentiated bulk surveillance is the governmental acquisition of fiber-optic data stored and transmitted by nearly everyone in America. This includes all telephone conversations, text messages and emails, as well as all medical, legal and financial records.
Congress recently passed and President Donald Trump signed a vast expansion of spying authorities — an expansion that authorizes legislatively the domestic spying that judges were authorizing on everyone in the U.S. without individual suspicion of wrongdoing or probable cause of crime; an expansion that passed in the Senate with no votes to spare; an expansion that evades and avoids the Fourth Amendment; an expansion that the president signed into law the day before we all learned of the House Intelligence Committee memo.
The FISA expansion would never have passed the Senate had the House Intelligence Committee memo and the data on which it is based come to light seven days sooner than it did. Why should 22 members of a House committee keep their 500-plus congressional colleagues in the dark about domestic spying abuses while those colleagues were debating the very subject matter of domestic spying and voting to expand the power of those who have abused it?
The government works for us; we should not tolerate its treating us as children. When raw intelligence data is capable of differing interpretations and is relevant to a public dispute — about, for example, whether the NSA and the FBI are trustworthy, whether FISA should even exist, whether spying on everyone all the time keeps us safe and whether the Constitution even permits this — the raw data should be released to the American public.
Everyone in government takes an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. How many take it meaningfully and seriously?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Yeah, but it’s so much fun. The perfect weapon for politicians. It all started with 700 FBI files.
More like 900, if I remember correctly.
Oh yeah that fargin ‘jugde’ that said O’muslim is a natural born citizen is chiming in...Should we give a sh!t? I don’t think so.
Now I don't brag on myself, but maybe if God inspired this song I could brag on Him. "Yeehaw the rats are all flushed out." I wrote this well before Donald Trump became big on the political scene -- in fact during Obama's first term.
They needed to renew and expand FISA so Trump can now spy on Democrats.
She killed 200, thus explaining the 700 net.
Any bets that Cankles has Sessions’ file? Certainly would explain his vigorous job performance.
When I am 75 years old if Hillary wants to disclose that I love Asian prostitutes, sleep with my sister in law every Tuesday, have a gambling addiction, and lied on my college transcript record, I say go for it! That would make me sound alive and full of energy.
At the very least, the Democrats used a spurious document as a pretext to spy on a political opponent for the Presidency of the United States. That is all anyone needs to know. Everyone involved should be punished.
“The President has put in place an organization with the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life,” Representative Maxine Waters told Roland Martin. “That’s going to be very, very powerful,” Waters said. “That database will have information about everything on every individual on ways that it’s never been done before and whoever runs for President on the Democratic ticket has to deal with that. They’re going to go down with that database and the concerns of those people because they can’t get around it. And he’s [President Obama] been very smart. It’s very powerful what he’s leaving in place.”
SOURCE http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/06/maxine-waters-obama-has-put-in-place-secret-database-with-everything-on-everyone-video/
13 under Nixon.
W/ the FISA warrant was the FBI able to monitor communications of Carter Page only or were they also monitoring other members of the Trump campaign?
But that’s not appropriate either. Neither side should be spying on the other. Politicizing and weaponizing the security apparatus violates our liberties and our Constitution, and it is dangerous for the country.
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