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NSA Spying Wins Another Rubber Stamp
schwit1 sends this report from the National Journal:
A federal court has again renewed an order allowing the National Security Agency to continue its bulk collection of Americans' phone records, a decision that comes more than a year after President Obama pledged to end the controversial program. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved this week a government request to keep the NSA's mass surveillance of U.S. phone metadata operating until June 1, coinciding with when the legal authority for the program is set to expire in Congress. The extension is the fifth of its kind since Obama said he would effectively end the Snowden-exposed program as it currently exists during a major policy speech in January 2014. Obama and senior administration officials have repeatedly insisted that they will not act alone to end the program without Congress.
- to block oil pipeline construction
- to import millions of new immigrants to compete with you for jobs
- to have the IRS harass his political opponents
- to spy on the press
- to send troops to Iraq
- to postpone nearly every legal deadline in Obamacare
- to approve the Comcast -Time Warner merger
- to impose new taxes on your internet service in the name of net neutrality
But when he's using the NSA to spy on you, he blames Congress.
It's worth remember at this stage, that PRISM, NSA's bulk mass collection program is a list of company NAMES, not software products or databases:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%29#mediaviewer/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg
So it is not a hack of Microsoft or Google, and it is not that 'MSN Messager' was decrypted, it lists COMPANIES, it is Microsoft not a product within Microsoft.
So you need to realize that these companies provide data feeds to the NSA for their customers, not limited to terrorists or suspicion, bulk data feeds to fill up Utah and the other 5 mega data centers they're building.
And it only covers the data feeds up to 2012 when Apple was added. After that there's been a massive increase in the surveillance, courtesy of Android.
All those permissions you have those messaging apps, your financial stuff, your taxi/ride-sharing app that tracks your every move, all that crapware installed on Android that gets all the rights it can and takes all the data it can.
It's far beyond the meta data on the telephone calls. That wouldn't even fill the tiniest corner of one of those data centers.
Not in JAN 2014 it wasn't. Or did you think he was elected President late last year?
Senator and Candidate Obama railed against "warrantless wiretapping" and pledged he'd end such activities were he elected.
Seven and eight years ago.
He's had six fucking years as President to do what he as a Senator and candidate said he'd do.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Obama seems to have fooled YOU for seven years running.
Is there are reason that we haven't heard about the Clinton's FBI's Carnivore (or descendants of carnivore) lately?
Don't get me wrong. I'm glad we're hearing about Obama's continuation of Bush's domestic spying. But just wondering why we aren't hearing about Obama continuing Clinton's domestic spying.