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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The orders allowing the NSA to access the phone data are secret, the Verizon order is the one that’s been leaked. There could be orders for the other phone companies as well. The Obama administration is probably looking at phone data for all Americans.
I understood this to be cellular only, but I could be mistaken.
Also, keep in mind that domestic land lines are still pretty well protected from warrantless wiretapping. Cellular signals are “interceptible” but cannot be decrypted quickly. If Verizon hands over the keys to their network, the Feds can intercept and decrypt anything they want: calls, texts, browsing habits, etc.
I practice what I call “Mob Safety.” Never use your cell phone to discuss private or sensitive information. You never know who might be listening.
I'm more disgusted with the Republicans who can't follow through on these scandals and drive Obama and his team out of DC than I am at Obama and his team who are still getting away with the Benghazi outrage, and still arming terrorists to do their globalist dirty work.
Carnivore?
Echelon?
So is this another CIA motivated stab in the back to Obama???
Lispy Graham was just on F and F and doesn’t find a prob with this. *rolls eyes*
You forget he’s the Teflon President. Nothing sticks..he’s “who can make war withe beast” 666 type of guy...
You my, friend have nailed it!
The bad guys are us.....not al queda.
Yea, just like all the other scandals. I'm sure the impeachment hearings will start any day now....(waiting).... /s
Can you hear me now? FUBO, FUVJ, FUEH
Nope, won’t happen.
Our low information voters love the dork.
He’s their sort of person.
Loutish, peckish, uneducated, and untalented.
Hmmmm, I just described the MSM also.
Makes sense.
Years ago, a relative who works for NSA at mid-level obliquely told me that “there is no privacy”. Now I know what he meant.
Bush started it.
Shocked, I tell you...shocked!
It was a secret warrant that was leaked. There are probably other secret warrants for the other companies that have not yet been leaked.
Obviously they are getting ATT’s records too. Don’t expect the fascists to voluntarily tell us that!
The media will talk about it a while, but tell the public that it’s no big deal.
Change it to a Bush presidency, and he’s hitler, mussolini, stalin, the kgb and the ss all in one.
Big Brother has arrived...Big Time.
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