Yet there are FReepers who think this is simply wonderful. *sigh*
Update: What does this mean?
A leading Republican senator on Tuesday described controversial U.S. spy programs as looking far deeper into Americans’ phone records than the Obama administration has been willing to admit, fueling new privacy concerns as Congress sought to defend the surveillance systems.
“Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC., says the U.S. intelligence surveillance of phone records allows analysts to monitor U.S. phone records for a pattern of calls, even if those numbers have no known connection to terrorism.”
“Graham says the National Security Agency then matches phone numbers against known terrorists. Graham helped draft the surveillance law that governs the surveillance program.”
In other words, they’re looking for patterns among the general population that match the phone patterns of people they’ve already identified as terrorists? So they’re not limiting themselves to targeting specific terrorist-linked numbers anymore, but suspicious “patterns” too?
FReepers going to accuse Graham of being a traitor to the USSA for revealing this?
As decreed by Chancellor AND Fuehrer B. Hussein Obama, the Utah site for the storage of NSA, FBI, DOJ, IRS and other documents will now be known as “FEDERAL BLACKMAIL HQ” against citizens who might oppose the Obamanation Reich in the future.
Seig Heil! Seig Heil! SEIG HEIL!
I don’t understand how this is constitutional or even acceptable to any thinking person. Give the government - give ANYONE - this kind of power and it will be abused. It’s human nature.
One must also inquire re the looseness with which they and the approvers defines the parameters of the patriot act. Is it under the act or BO and co. S interpretation aiming to blame bush in the most convenient manner
They vet the enemy and it is us.
Osama is dead! Al Quida is on the run! Which justifies the 1000% increase of snooping on the American people.
Does not compute!
If 100% increase results in twice the amount, does a 1000% increase amount to 20x or 11x? I’ll go with a sum total of 11x.
Something tells me they aren't fishing for radical mooselimb terrorists, but plain old Americans who might stand up to Zero, the media's selected boy-god-king.
And not one FBI agent with a conscience among them. Not one who sees anything wrong with this.
Obama's government drunk swarms of agents are on steroids and discovered they need not flash-bang your door in with SWAT. They just enter thru your computer and phone back door and quietly sit and listen to you 24/7 while you have no fifth amendment protection.
So by Obama’s logic, the war on terror has decreased 1000% - yet the information requests have increased by 1000%.
Know what we call that folks?
Obama is a liar.