Thanks to bb for posting this nugget in another thread...
...anyone who still fantasizes that the Executive branch of the United Socialist State of America is not totally trampling over the inherent 4th Amendment rights of every citizen should stfu, take an extra gulp of collective cud, and just keep meandering silently along with the rest of the apathetic heard until the edge of the cliff thankfully greets them.
Be clear: practically every significant exchange of information in the world today is conducted digitally, and the USSA's NSA (National Security Agency) is charged by the Executive branch to collect every bit of that data it can - whether domestic or foreign...
...the USSA tyrants have long had this collection ambition and have been continually building toward it through all the past years when such mass data retrieval and storage longings were ideals more than practicalities. But, today, those technical limitations have been overcome and collecting, recording, cataloging, and analyzing all the world's digital events - every single one of them - is well underway. The USSA has even covertly committed billions of American taxpayer dollars to completely fund NSA's next step in totally commanding digital surveillance of every American's life:
A portion of the NSA's mammoth data center in Bluffdale, Utah, scheduled to open this fall. (Credit: Getty Images)
How can this happen?
When those who swear to protect and defend the 4th are the very same ones who deem to work around it to pursue whatever objectives they hold dearer, the 4th - obviously - losses its inherent superiority as the law of the land and simply becomes just another consideration of man...
...read these words carefully:
What's not so surprising is hearing/reading so many lemming Americans who don't seem bothered at all when presented the "news" that their USSA government has every citizen under 24/7/365 digital surveillance. Either is it that surprising reading all the statists on LIT who continue to maintain that USSA government goons don't have content-access to every American's digital life...
...because when the concrete proof is presented completely disproving their erroneous position, they still defend their statist government's ability to fully violate the constitutional rights of all Americans.
Statists are simply those who champion a nation of men...
...rather than revere a nation of law.
What's going to be interesting is experiencing the developments as the world comes to realize/understand that the USSA isn't just accessing all the digital events of Americans' lives, but also of all of theirs...
...sorry America, but the statist government you've allowed to prevail is taking you down to the level all statist governments command their subjects to exist at.
We the People doesn't mean squat...
...unless the people actually uphold their inherent charge to be the master of all government.
NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants
National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls. That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too.
...Rep. Nadler's disclosure that NSA analysts can listen to calls without court orders came during a House Judiciary hearing on Thursday that included FBI director Robert Mueller as a witness.
Mueller initially sought to downplay concerns about NSA surveillance by claiming that, to listen to a phone call, the government would need to seek "a special, a particularized order from the FISA court directed at that particular phone of that particular individual."
Is information about that procedure "classified in any way?" Nadler asked.
"I don't think so," Mueller replied.
"Then I can say the following," Nadler said. "We heard precisely the opposite at the briefing the other day. We heard precisely that you could get the specific information from that telephone simply based on an analyst deciding that...In other words, what you just said is incorrect. So there's a conflict."
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the head of the Senate Intelligence committee, separately acknowledged this week that the agency's analysts have the ability to access the "content of a call."
...anyone who still fantasizes that the Executive branch of the United Socialist State of America is not totally trampling over the inherent 4th Amendment rights of every citizen should stfu, take an extra gulp of collective cud, and just keep meandering silently along with the rest of the apathetic heard until the edge of the cliff thankfully greets them.
Former FBI counterterrorism agent Tim Clemente told CNN last month that, in national security investigations, the bureau can access records of a previously made telephone call. "All of that stuff is being captured as we speak whether we know it or like it or not," he said. Clemente added in an appearance the next day that, thanks to the "intelligence community" -- an apparent reference to the NSA -- "there's a way to look at digital communications in the past."
Be clear: practically every significant exchange of information in the world today is conducted digitally, and the USSA's NSA (National Security Agency) is charged by the Executive branch to collect every bit of that data it can - whether domestic or foreign...
...the USSA tyrants have long had this collection ambition and have been continually building toward it through all the past years when such mass data retrieval and storage longings were ideals more than practicalities. But, today, those technical limitations have been overcome and collecting, recording, cataloging, and analyzing all the world's digital events - every single one of them - is well underway. The USSA has even covertly committed billions of American taxpayer dollars to completely fund NSA's next step in totally commanding digital surveillance of every American's life:
A portion of the NSA's mammoth data center in Bluffdale, Utah, scheduled to open this fall. (Credit: Getty Images)
How can this happen?
When those who swear to protect and defend the 4th are the very same ones who deem to work around it to pursue whatever objectives they hold dearer, the 4th - obviously - losses its inherent superiority as the law of the land and simply becomes just another consideration of man...
...read these words carefully:
AT&T and other telecommunications companies that allow the NSA to tap into their fiber links receive absolute immunity from civil liability or criminal prosecution, thanks to a law that Congress enacted in 2008 and renewed in 2012. It's a series of amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, also known as the FISA Amendments Act.
That law says surveillance may be authorized by the attorney general and director of national intelligence without prior approval by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, as long as minimization requirements and general procedures blessed by the court are followed.
A requirement of the 2008 law is that the NSA "may not intentionally target any person known at the time of acquisition to be located in the United States." A possible interpretation of that language, some legal experts said, is that the agency may vacuum up everything it can domestically -- on the theory that indiscriminate data acquisition was not intended to "target" a specific American citizen.
...[former Director of National Intelligence Michael] McConnell said during a separate congressional appearance around the same time [2007] that he believed the president had the constitutional authority, no matter what the law actually says, to order domestic spying without warrants.
What's not so surprising is hearing/reading so many lemming Americans who don't seem bothered at all when presented the "news" that their USSA government has every citizen under 24/7/365 digital surveillance. Either is it that surprising reading all the statists on LIT who continue to maintain that USSA government goons don't have content-access to every American's digital life...
...because when the concrete proof is presented completely disproving their erroneous position, they still defend their statist government's ability to fully violate the constitutional rights of all Americans.
Statists are simply those who champion a nation of men...
...rather than revere a nation of law.
What's going to be interesting is experiencing the developments as the world comes to realize/understand that the USSA isn't just accessing all the digital events of Americans' lives, but also of all of theirs...
...sorry America, but the statist government you've allowed to prevail is taking you down to the level all statist governments command their subjects to exist at.
We the People doesn't mean squat...
...unless the people actually uphold their inherent charge to be the master of all government.