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Democratic establishment unmasked: prime defenders of NSA bulk spying NYT: "The Obama administration made common cause with the House Republican leadership" Perhaps the most amazing moment came when GOP Rep. James Sensenbrenner - the prime author of the Patriot Act back in 2001 and a...

You can't say they "voted for it" because the patriot act was radically interpreted to give all kinds of powers that weren't written into the patriot act, a lot of it is implied powers the FISA court ok'd in SECRET from executive branch lawyers. I understand what you are saying congress has...

voting for the authority is a false premise, the patriot act was radically interpreted, there is no provisions in the patriots act authorizing anything for the NSA it was all derived from implied powers. Infact one of the committee members who drafted the patriot act made a rousing speech in...

Michelle bachmans response should show you exactly the mentality Of the people sitting on the intelligence committees, as a tea party person she is the last person who should be saying this stuff is ok. They've been doing this stuff for over a decade now and put their names on documents...

Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSA Documents provided by two House members demonstrate how they are blocked from exercising any oversight over domestic surveillance Members of Congress have been repeatedly thwarted when attempting to learn basic information...

not all of them no, The people sitting on the intelligence committees (like feinstein and bachman) and people in their cliques do, but there's been many public displays where congressman are denied access to the information.

wouldn't that cause the tube to explode?

They are looking at and then recording all the content not just the meta data.

yeah and comparing public payphones to private email is kinda sketchy in of itself.

except the warrants are blanket warrants not individual ones, and operators have 2 weeks to justify their intercept AFTER they already looked at the data, including using data found to build the case to justify the action. ontop of all this the warrants are issued by a secret court that...

no it's a chore to link this video so you gotta click on it yourself CIA DIRECTOR BRENNAN CONFIRMED AS REPORTER MICHAEL HASTINGS NEXT TARGET This week Elise Jordan, wife of famed journalist Michael Hastings, who recently died under suspicious circumstances, corroborated this reporter's...

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205-217 should show everyone that this is something even most of congress wasn't even really aware of.

They are using the nsa data domestic spying on criminal non terror related cases. so it's worse than just "the info is in a box untouched'

Same reason nation states don't use Nuclear weapons,deterrence. Deterrence mind you reinforces the idea that individuals can go bad and that fallible leaders could drag everyone to nuclear winter, The idea is/was to frame the reality to the other side that using nuclear weapons would be the...

What is government? it's stone and concrete it's run by people, and that's too much power in the hands of a tiny amount of people. That's a historical condition that allows all the worst things about police states to happen, concentrated power. One of the beautiful ways about the manner in...

That's a bad way to look at it, the leak came from contracted intelligence, the tech companies don't get to look at their end. the tech companies already own their portion but not the complete web of it. The meeting with the tech firms is to continue what they've been doing this whole time...

somehow nsa meta data collection and the tsa didn't exist in the 70's and people didn't go around shitting their pants with extreme fear paranoia.

well you're saying meta data is powerful and it is, however if everyone started encrypting everything in a more effective manner it would make the task of reading the contents alot harder, that is true.

Well duh people who have a problem with this don't want to let it get to that point someplace in the near to distance future.

Well that's too fucking bad if the public knowing makes things a little more difficult for them. like having to go get warrants. Alot of times they barely know what they are doing and probably cause more harm than good in the long run anyways. I mean the UK was utterly convinced...

More I found Snowden Leak Highlights Few Whistleblower Protections for Intelligence Contract Employees While federal workers employed in intelligence gathering have less whistleblower protections than other federal workers, they are still able to raise their complaints with the Inspector...

The NSA is turning the internet into a total surveillance system Now we know all Americans' international email is searched and saved, we can see how far the 'collect it all' mission has gone According to theNew York Times, the NSA is searching the content of virtually every email that comes...

"Our government has violated the law by collecting the communications of millions of innocent U.S. citizens." -Rep. Rush D. Holt (D-NJ)

what the white house does is find creative lawyers to justify the actions they want to take, and if those lawyers protest they get rid of them and get new lawyers, I mean yes they where very creative at convincing somebody. when viewed that way, a secret one sided court making supreme court...

This should tell you something about how the state trains lawyers.

this is also somehow blind to the fact that the supreme court has been highly politicized that is part of the reason alot of decisions come out 5-4

The government is a serial liar in the sense that people lie and have been caught lying since it was founded? have you never read a history book? You have to read multiple news sources, I mean note what they say that is important but look for news that reports facts about events or places or...

You're mistaking actual news with "A DEA spokesman said:", that's propaganda and it doesn't matter if you are a constitutional lawyer or not that just means you are more capable and probably more creative at self delusion than the common person.

I was going to post this in science but it needs to be reminded here from time to time, the behavior tracking of these large advertising firms is what I consider a partial source of the corruption that led to nsa spying, the big data behavioral analysis techniques and devices where made for...

who said obama? there's plenty of future crisis left to happen, just wait. when you look at the 18th-19th century in europe you see all kinds of crises preceding revolutions.

We'll your gut is wrong, he's stated already that he has data that will never get released because it will endanger people. and 2 He has employed a strategy of releasing tidbits of information, this way the government takes a stance, then after they declare a stance he has been releasing...

who said obama, there's plenty of crises left to go in the future history of the world.

well Hitler rose to power on a wave of populism after a crisis. Hitler was a socialist as well.

Ugh you haven't been paying attention the dea was already caught using nsa data to criminally investigate people, not even related to terror crimes, so yes they have already abused the system.

The Obama administration on Friday released awhite paperin an apparent attempt to justify the National Security Agency's dragnet surveillance of Americans. "The way the government is interpreting relevance, anything and everything they say is relevant becomes relevant."

Few things on this planet can be as destructive as creative accountants.