The NSA: Never Not Watching

Trailrunner7 writes "For many observers of the privacy and surveillance landscape, the revelation by The Guardian that the FBI received a warrant from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to require Verizon to turn over to the National Security Agency piles of call metadata on all calls on its network probably felt like someone telling them that water is wet. There have been any number of signals in the last few years that this kind of surveillance and data collection was going on, little indications that the United States government was not just spying on its own citizens, but doing so on a scale that would dwarf anything that all but the most paranoid would imagine." And now the Obama administration has defended the practice as a "critical tool."

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Re:seems all the politicos are in favor

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm pretty sure that our Founding Fathers would NOT have supported this.

The founding fathers fucked slaves and failed to include women when handing out rights. The constitution exists independent of them, and what you think they may have wanted has no merit in any discussion on the Constitutionality of an issue. Stop putting dead men on a pedestal and come up with proper reasoning for your arguments.