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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You are basically correct, but it morphed into Frankenbama.
5.56mm
People will be held accountable. This is unacceptable. He will focus on this like a laser until it is resolved. He goes to bed at night thinking about how he can improve this situation.
As a Verizon user, I guess I’m screwed. I called Pizza Hut last night and ordered a pizza with mushrooms, bacon and sausage.
“...National Security Agency has been data-mining the phone records of tens of millions of ordinary Americans...”
If President Bush even DREAMED of doing such a thing, he’d wake up to a 24/7 investigation complete with ‘journalists’ crawling up his rectum AND a firing squad loaded and waiting on the WH lawn!
treasonous sh*t of the first magnitude
It took a British newspaper to break this Verizon story.
As usual, the Obama loving American media is either asleep at the wheel or covering for their lord and savior Obama.
But hey, there’s the latest news about Kim Kardasian and Kayne West to report. Sigh.
“We Have Met The Enemy and He Is Us”
Your pizza order was clearly an expression of your hatred of the Religion of Peace™. Barry and his thugs will no doubt use your pizza order to prosecute you for this hate crime.
Prepare to be boarded.
“Can you hear me now?”
Verizon will have to change their slogan now...
“YES, WE CAN hear YOU now.”
Nothing is going to happen to Obama. Bush and the Republicans were neck deep in this. They created this whole domestic spying system. They created the TSA and Homeland Security. They may try to score some cheap political points but they won't really go after Obama becuase it may damage the system.
And it was not created to go after Al Qeada. The US/NATO fiances and arms Al Qeada. This whole police state apparatus was always meant to go after the American people, specifically conservatives, libertarians, gun owners, home schoolers, Christians, returning veterans. Basically anyone who is not a communist.
I’m sure we weren’t “noticed” as my hubby and I placed opposition calls to Boxer’s and Feintsein’s offices on our cell phones (service provided by Verizon, of course...)
Just curious what carrier those with Obamaphones use. I’m guessing it’s not Verizon.
I believe there are stories in the NYT and Washing Post as well.
Carnivore?
Carnivore?
“YES, WE CAN hear YOU now.”
LOL!
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