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US Federal Judge Rules NSA Data Collection Legal
New submitter CheezburgerBrown . tips this AP report:
"A federal judge on Friday found that the National Security Agency's bulk collection of millions of Americans' telephone records is legal and a valuable part of the nation's arsenal to counter the threat of terrorism. U.S. District Judge William Pauley said in a written opinion (PDF) that the program 'represents the government's counter-punch' to eliminate al-Qaeda's terror network by connecting fragmented and fleeting communications. In ruling, the judge noted the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and how the phone data-collection system could have helped investigators connect the dots before the attacks occurred. 'The government learned from its mistake and adapted to confront a new enemy: a terror network capable of orchestrating attacks across the world. It launched a number of counter-measures, including a bulk telephony metadata collection program — a wide net that could find and isolate gossamer contacts among suspected terrorists in an ocean of seemingly disconnected data,' he said."
Not too deeply anchored in reality, are you? ATF forced nothing, they sold weapons directly (undercover pretending to be FFL's) in the hopes of tracking distribution. As they had been doing for a decade before. The IRS targeted ALL political sounding organizations- 501(c)4-6 are NOT ALLOWED TO BE POLITICAL. That the vast majority of them were Tea Party (again, NOT ALLOWED) was merely an indication of the extent party's corruption, not a bias in the IRS. Only three were actually refused, BTW. All were Liberal. Dozens more were slated to be refused, rightly so, but the outcry put that on hold. Which is clearly what the outcry was intended to do. Fox did not scoop this, they planned it. No story was fabricated, as has been determined time and time again by investigations. A reasonable conclusion was drawn- rioting was happening all over Egypt and other countries at that exact moment for specifically what they stated. Thinking that this is simply another of those identical riots is not a stretch by any means.
Waiting for the first beats of 'Velcro Fly' to start.