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Posted on 06/17/2009 6:56:43 PM PDT by FromLori
The National Security Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillance program, with critics in Congress saying its recent intercepts of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans are broader than previously acknowledged, current and former officials said.
Brendan Smialowski for The New York Times Representative Rush Holt Readers' Comments Readers shared their thoughts on this article. Read All Comments (170) » The agency’s monitoring of domestic e-mail messages, in particular, has posed longstanding legal and logistical difficulties, the officials said.
Since April, when it was disclosed that the intercepts of some private communications of Americans went beyond legal limits in late 2008 and early 2009, several Congressional committees have been investigating. Those inquiries have led to concerns in Congress about the agency’s ability to collect and read domestic e-mail messages of Americans on a widespread basis, officials said. Supporting that conclusion is the account of a former N.S.A. analyst who, in a series of interviews, described being trained in 2005 for a program in which the agency routinely examined large volumes of Americans’ e-mail messages without court warrants. Two intelligence officials confirmed that the program was still in operation.
Both the former analyst’s account and the rising concern among some members of Congress about the N.S.A.’s recent operation are raising fresh questions about the spy agency.
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This should end right now.
If the government wants to intercept and analyze our communications, they should be required to have a dammed search warrant!!
Since we are in the process of turning terrorist prisoners loose, and even sending some to a Bermuda paradise, why would the government feel it necessary to spy on our citizens?
1984
Bush and Obama are guilty.
It must be stopped.
Absolutely
G’night.
I HOPE BARRY THE MARXIST FAILS!!!!!!!
This really isn’t a shocker, what is more of a shock is those who actually think the NSACIAFBIATFUSSSDEA et al will actually stop doing this when ordered by a court.
They’ll just relocate the program and restaff it with new faces and continue on about their business.
Amazing that a government agency could use someones comment about taxes on an anonymous forum to demand the ID details of all the posters.
The publication should inform the IRS that “sorry, we don’t have that information backed up, no logs were kept, sorry”
Nothing more than SecState Clinton (then First ‘Lady’) did when anyone wanted HER records.
I think you're onto something here.
Its not fascism if they do it.
Haven’t heard much from Bill Gates following the federal Microsoft shakedown plea either... got Linux?
Did you see the article where Microsoft threatened the obamageddon they would move jobs out of the country a few weeks ago?
http://www.businessinsider.com/ballmer-threatens-obama-says-hell-move-jobs-overseas-2009-6
If Zero’s plan is, as it seems, to wreck the free enterprise economy, then this is no threat to him at all... it’s a bonus.
And most of the information demanded was way beyond the scope of even what would be available if the newspaper demanded registration. They wanted home addresses, etc. Ridiculous.
I like how it was okay when GW was in office, now it’s not. I don’t really care who’s in office, either way it’s a bad precedent.
Don’t use one email. Use several different ones. Yahoo, AOL, hushmail, gmail, roadrunner, etc. Don’t make it easy on them and never use your real name or state when signing up for an email account. Also use an IP blocker always. Make sure it runs at start up so it’s always blocked or make sure you are using a proxy.
How do you get an IP blocker?
Just google hide my ip and proxy servers. There are tons. You can also use TOR but it’s slow.
Regarding salty talk aimed at the president (or other officials) vs visits from the SS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200093/posts
Since when did out government give a sh!t about the Constitution?
Say around, oh...1776?
If anyone needs to be watched it’s Barry. The highest office in the land and he walks around with a blackberry.
Folks - one technical thing to remember here is that e-mail is like a postcard - it can easily be read on any machine it passes through on its journey from source to destination.
To protect e-mail, use some type of encryption - won’t stop someone who really wants to read your e-mail, but it will slow them down
While I appreciate and agree with the sentiment, the constitution wasn't ratified until 1791.
Because the government does not trust its armed citizens. If you are going to control the masses you must disarm them, limit travel & free speech, control food & medical care, and crash the economy. All are in play.
all congress cares about is that their e-mails may be read and they can get caught, screw the people of the US
A government that thinks it is authorized to dictate your medical care is certainly not going to worry about reading your mail.
That’s why I don’t think the present administration has much to do with this.
Funny how that works, huh?
Which is why I tell the keyboard commandos here to STHU
Use hushmail or some other email service where it is encrypted. NEVER use AOL. Your IP blockers do not work with AOL.
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