Sen. Leahy on NSA spying: We need to stop government from controlling American people

Sen. Patrick Leahy says the American people are at risk of being controlled by their government due to the expansive surveillance powers of the National Security Agency.

Speaking on “Fox News Sunday,” the Vermont Democrat and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee told host Chris Wallace that the nation’s lawmakers must act to return control of the government to the people.

Amusing to hear a leading Democratic socialist warn about the government controlling people.His whole career has been about controlling people.

I wonder what the name of the next "Church Committee" would/will be — for the NSA, rather than CIA, to which (and the national security) the Church Committee has done great damage.

The now dismantled Able Danger — DIA's "connect-the-dots" program — has been able to identify the 9/11 terrorists' "social network," working with a much smaller dataset but at a time when the Internet, for all intents and purposes, has been a much smaller part of everyday life in the US and the world.

In the meantime, the real, documented abuses of the American citizens and businesses by the politicized IRS, EPA, DOJ, DOE and number of other federal agencies and departments are kept hidden and silent, lost in all the noise about the security agency which has only been performing the task it has been required by politicians to perform, with the normal adjustments for the technologies of the age, which have already been demonstrably used by terrorists.

Lawmakers: Fear Silicon Valley and data brokers, not NSA - The Hill, by Peter Sullivan, 2014 January 18

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