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Senator Bernie Sanders Asks NSA If Agency Is Spying On Congress

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 4, 2014 @01:25AM from the friends-of-ron dept.

cold fjord writes with this excerpt from Fox News: "A U.S. senator on Friday pressed the National Security Agency on whether its controversial spying practices extend to monitoring members of Congress. 'Has the NSA spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected officials?' Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., asked in a letter to NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander released from the senator's office. Sanders, a self-described 'democratic socialist,' defines spying as monitoring the phone calls, emails and internet traffic of elected officials."

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Re:oh sure by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-04 01:46 · Score: 5, Informative

Sorry bud but you don't know who Bernie Sanders is if you make a comment like that.
Proof he's not qualified to ask the question. by PsychoSlashDot · 2014-01-04 01:56 · Score: 4, Informative

At the very least, blanket metadata capture means the answer is absolutely, positively, unrepentantly YES.

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Re: Let all of them spy.... by AlterEager · 2014-01-04 05:18 · Score: 4, Informative

What, no love for the USPS?
Are you not up to date?
The USPS is spying on you.
They photograph and archive the metadata (i.e. envelope info) of every single piece of mail.
Re:Well, uh... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-04 06:21 · Score: 5, Informative

To be fair to the NSA, if you're looking for a group of people who are looking to destroy the USA, based on the evidence, Congress would be a very good place to start your search.