Posted on 06/06/2013 5:30:26 AM PDT by blam
Domestic Spying Revelation Could Be Devastating For The Obama White House
Peter Foster, The Telegraph
June. 6, 2013, 6:46 AM
The Obama administration will be bracing itself for a torrent of hostile questions this morning following the apparent revelation that the National Security Agency has been data-mining the phone records of tens of millions of ordinary Americans.
Not to be confused with eaves-dropping, or bugging the phones of those suspected of conspiring to commit a terrorist or criminal offence, the top secret court order published by The Guardian appears to show that the NSA has been trawling the anonymous 'metadata' of potentially billions of phone-calls.
On the one hand, American might take comfort that the 'internals' of their phone conversations ie the voices themselves - are not being routinely recorded, but on the other, it seems from this leak that potentially everyone with a phone is under some form of surveillance in the USA.
Studies have shown that while anonymous, the 'metadata' records of location data, call duration, unique identifiers can provide a surprising amount of information, surprisingly quickly when zeroed in on by investigators.
For Mr Obama a president who prided himself on his liberal credentials this leak is a potentially devastating revelation since it exposes him to attack on two fronts - from both the libertarian Right and the liberal Left.
Already the administration has been hammered over its aggressive prosecution of leakers, including what appeared to be an attempt to criminalise a Fox News journalist, James Rosen, for working a source to obtain a leak from the State Department about North Korea.
That story caused the New York Times usually a reliable friend of the Obama administration - to write a seething editorial
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
What planet are you from? Welcome to Earth.
Civil liberties means nothing to the Pubes or the Demonrats. The Constitution is merely a symbolic historical document. We will never regain our freedom.
“tracfone is my carrier of choice - i pay as ai go - $10 @ mos -compared to my wifes $98 with verizon
it leaves me more $ for fishing and hunting equip.”
My wife and I are converting a lot of fellow senior citizens and others, who still can do math to TracFones.
Your wife’s Verizon monthly fees are too high for us and you. Some of our friends and other people we know are dropping even more each month for some services.
For fun ask an IPhone addict what they pay each month for their IPhone. We never have gotten a honest and straight answer from anyone. Either they don’t know or don’t want anyone else to know.
Just because you're a nut-job conspiracy freak doesn't mean they aren't out to get you!
I'd like to believe that but there is really no way we can know until we hear the immortal words of the MSM: "Bush did it". And of course we won't know even then if it's true.
Nevertheless ...
The The Bush Did It Countdown begins: 100, 99, 98, 97 ...
bastages
I don’t think we really understand the magnitude of this.
Perfect! Welcome aboard!
while werte talking reduced fee's on utilities - check out roku instead of cable - its ala carte - netflix, vudu, amazon - all there - PLUS hunting channels - breeze to install - $70 for box - prolly $14/mos for netflix and amazon (tv and movie)
It did, through the Guardian.
Holder announced he was going to investigate the leaker.
And no, I’m not kidding.
You know, you made me think of something...
Does anyone know if the ‘new’ way of having a home phone using VOIP(over the internet) is a technical landline and covered under the laws requiring a warrant to tap the line?
This was point those of us against the Patriot Act was making.
So fine, Bush would use it responsibly. It’s THE NEXT GUY that might abuse it.
And he did.
No one listened and just asked “What are you afraid if you aren’t doing anything wrong?”
Can you hear me now?
Verizon will have to change their slogan now...
YES, WE CAN hear YOU now.
Please, someone make this into a graphic!
You need to get Straight Talk. $45 a month unlimited talk, text and internet on the phone.
I pay $45 for my smart phone (not IPhone, but Samsung and I have a good internet browser and buy apps too) and get unlimited mobile broadband (3G)
I pay $45 for my smart phone (not IPhone, but Samsung and I have a good internet browser and buy apps too) and get unlimited mobile broadband (3G)
Oh, and that’s unlimited texting and minutes too.
“thats what she has (I phone) - its turned her into a palm staring zombie LOL.”
BOL!
I’ve posted about this event before.
A few months ago our church held a seminar on the importance of having wills and or trusts and the importance of updating your data.
The church hall was filled with people from their 50’s to 80’s.
At the 10 am break, a herd of IPhone and smart phone addicts rushed to the court yard, sidewalks and even the streets by the church to become Palm staring Zombies and getting carpal tunnel syndrome in their index fingers.
About the only two people not doing this was a long time Doctor friend of mine and me.
He said, “We both are trained to recognize addictive behavior, and are we seeing it with our brothers and sisters at this moment.
I scanned the horde of palm scanning zombies and agreed.
Then the good Dr asked, “If we ran PET Scans of their brains, would their scans show signs of addiction?”
Again I agreed.
His next comment was very interesting since Apple stock had taken hits. He said, “it was illegal for us to invest in pot farms or poppy farms in Afghanistan, but it was legal to invest in Apple stock. Was something wrong?”
Im content with my 9.99 / mos voice/voicemail
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