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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."
They told me if I voted for Romney, we'd see this sort of thing... and they were right.
you are forgetting that the tea party has been silenced by the IRS... I wouldnt call myself a member by any means but i am on their side most of the time. There is zero excuse for this.
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same