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The NSA refuses to deny spying on members of Congress
Washington Post ^ | 1/4/2014 | BRIAN FUNG

Posted on 01/04/2014 7:50:37 PM PST by markomalley

"Has the NSA spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other elected officials?"

That's the question Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) put to the National Security Agency's chief in a bluntly worded letter Friday. It seems, however, that the agency cannot categorically say no.

Sanders didn't use the word "spy" lightly. He was careful to define his terms, indicating he meant the collection of phone records from personal as well as official telephones, "content from Web sites visited or e-mails sent," and data that companies collect but don't release to the public.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: 0homocare; 0homospy; berniesanders; clapperiscrap; gogetthembernie; impeachnow; nsa; nsacongress; nsascandals; nsaspying; vermont
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To: jsanders2001

Paging John Roberts!


41 posted on 01/05/2014 6:12:19 AM PST by FES0844
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To: maine yankee

42 posted on 01/05/2014 6:21:23 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
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To: markomalley

I’d bet Obama’s bank account they have a file two feet thick on every republican in Congress and one an inch think on Joe Biden. This is the forming of the One World Government. The more info it has, the more it can attack. America has a free and independent nation is gone. You don’t think so, just sit down and think about all you can no longer do that you once could do. Think about all you have lost. All the freedoms gone. Everything you now pay for that once the guy getting it paid for. Think about what America once stood for. Now we stand for free drugs, free abortions, sit on your ass for free stuff, people voting in our elections that are not even citizens, yada yada yada. It goes on and on. Nope. The America that I have lived in for over 60+ years is long, long gone. We are now in the dark empire of the left and Satan.


43 posted on 01/05/2014 6:32:23 AM PST by RetiredArmy (I am proud to be a Christian and follower of my Lord Jesus Christ. Time is short for U to know Him!)
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To: markomalley

Incredible. Utterly unacceptable on every level.


44 posted on 01/05/2014 7:01:28 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Don W
This and this alone should be enough for the US Congress to ELIMINATE the NSA lock, stock and barrel.

....and every single employee of the agency blacklisted from working for government (Federal, State or Local), and ANY job related even tangentially to Information Technology, and ANY job involving Personally Identifying Information.

The employees knew damned well what they were signing on to.

45 posted on 01/05/2014 7:04:59 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: markomalley

The Republic has be Caesarianed by the regime. One can only hope that a similar fate befalls this new islamofascist Caesar when he next visits the Senate.

Et Tu Bernie?


46 posted on 01/05/2014 7:20:53 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Lazamataz

“Incredible. Utterly unacceptable on every level.”

Absolutely. I would also like to know if the spying was focused on those of a particular party or political ideology. Those that control the information at the NSA could use that information to coerce / blackmail their way to their own legislative agenda, and essentially to act as a shadow government.


47 posted on 01/05/2014 7:35:00 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: tcrlaf
This going to be like campaigning in 1936 Nazi Germany. Are we really ready for it?

Only if the outcome is killing the opponents.

48 posted on 01/05/2014 7:48:22 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: markomalley
I never thought I'd say it, but three cheers for Bernie Sanders. His letter was bound to embarrass the NSA. And when the NSA looks bad, the president looks bad.

Here, for once, Sanders has put country over party.

49 posted on 01/05/2014 8:10:08 AM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Leaning Right
Here, for once, Sanders has put country over party.

More like Bernie is outraged that a Marxist senator would be spied upon by a Marxist regime that he has backed on all counts. He will only put country over party, when his goal of 1 leftist party is achieved.

50 posted on 01/05/2014 8:30:57 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: markomalley

This is funny.


51 posted on 01/05/2014 9:13:11 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: maine yankee

I’m sure they spied on them.

They just didn’t find any intelligence.

***

Funny.


52 posted on 01/05/2014 9:15:37 AM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: markomalley

Now that they’re looking into someone important, heads will roll...


53 posted on 01/05/2014 9:49:18 AM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Cicero

We also have pictures of you and your latest boyfriend, so shut up, Bernie.


54 posted on 01/05/2014 11:05:58 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Jacquerie

In my view we get one more chance at slowing and reversing the slide with national elections. If we fail you are on your own. My advice for quite some time is to keep your own list of traitors. If we are not successful in a turn around/clean out process then you will know what you have to do at the first sign of gummint getting heavy handed. Altho it can be said feralgummint is already heavy-handed so far they’ve contained themselves and most of the brown shirts seem to be in the National Park Service with a few scattered here and there.


55 posted on 01/05/2014 11:51:38 AM PST by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: xp38

I can’t get enough of that show. I hope they do one where a member of congress is being spied on and blackmailed by the government.

The NSA is under the executive branch. That branch spying on the legislative and judicial branches is not good.

I do believe Beck had something big concerning spying on Roberts. But Beck was probably spied on, too, and was told to shut up.


56 posted on 01/05/2014 12:54:53 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: markomalley
Fawhaja? Who is he? Hey get lost - I'm on my 160th golf game with my old boyfriend here!
57 posted on 01/05/2014 2:42:16 PM PST by devolve ("He's just 'too talented' to do what 'ordinary people' do." "Barry of Bungle" "Homo Electus")
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To: tcrlaf

I’m pretty sure this has been going on for a long time. It’s just that now it’s starting to become known. It’s easier and more intrusive with every year. But I will bet that IRS info has been used against Republicans at least as far back as the 50s if not since the beginning of the IRS.

One more reason to abolish the IRS!


58 posted on 01/05/2014 6:25:36 PM PST by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: markomalley

On the plus side: For once they are treating congresscritters as equal citizens.


59 posted on 01/05/2014 6:26:38 PM PST by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: generally
Well, "they" used the IRS to audit Joe McCarthy (R) and accused him of being a cheat.....unfortunately for "them" it turned out he was a due a refund as he'd overpaid.

So yeah, at least since the 50s.

60 posted on 01/05/2014 9:08:59 PM PST by Repeat Offender (What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
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