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Member of President Obama's NSA Panel Recommends Increased Data Collection
cold fjord writes "National Journal reports, 'Michael Morell, the former acting director of the CIA and a member of President Obama's task force on surveillance, said ... that a controversial telephone data-collection program conducted by the National Security Agency should be expanded to include emails. He also said the program, far from being unnecessary, could prevent the next 9/11. Morell, seeking to correct any misperception that the presidential panel had called for a radical curtailment of NSA programs, said he is in favor of restarting a program that the NSA discontinued in 2011 that involved the collection of "meta-data" for internet communications. ... "I would argue actually that the email data is probably more valuable than the telephony data," ... Morell also said that while he agreed with the report's conclusion that the telephone data program, conducted under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, made "only a modest contribution to the nation's security" so far, it should be continued under the new safeguards recommended by the panel. "I would argue that what effectiveness we have seen to date is totally irrelevant to how effective it might be in the future," he said. "This program, 215, has the ability to stop the next 9/11 and if you added emails in there it would make it even more effective. Had it been in place in 2000 and 2001, I think that probably 9/11 would not have happened."' — More at Politico and National Review. Some members of Congress have a different view. Even Russian President Putin has weighed in with both a zing and a defense."
It's worse than that, you get pulled over by a cop they run your license and it comes back as "pirate" and "copyright infringement" which by this time is such a serious crime because the FBI and DoD privatized their data and now it's copy written.... for national security.
Straight to work camp.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
What they want is to eliminate people's rights by cutting any kind of economic support the government has for its citizens.
WTF???
You don't have any "right" to economic support. You have the "right" to get the fuck up off your lazy ass, go to work, and support your own damn self.
Economic support from the government doesn't protect anyone's rights, it invariably curtails them.