Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing that has nothing to do

Washington Post ^ | 3/10/16 | Radley Balko

[Nachum]

What does this rule change mean for you? In short, domestic law enforcement officials now have access to huge troves of American communications, obtained without warrants, that they can use to put people in cages. FBI agents don’t need to have any “national security” related reason to plug your name, email address, phone number, or other “selector” into the NSA’s gargantuan data trove. They can simply poke around in your private information in the course of totally routine investigations. And if they find something that suggests, say, involvement in illegal drug activity, they can send that information to local or state police. That means information the NSA collects for purposes of so-called “national security” will be used by police to lock up ordinary Americans for routine crimes. And we don’t have to guess who’s going to suffer this unconstitutional indignity the most brutally. It’ll be Black, Brown, poor, immigrant, Muslim, and dissident Americans: the same people who are always targeted by law enforcement for extra “special” attention.

[Mr. M.J.B.]

LOL. Only in fairy tale land.

The primary and secondary missions of the FBI are protection of and increasing the power of...the FBI.

F. Justice, F. the Law, F. the Constitution.

Foreign agents? How about Hussein Odinga? Hitlery? Huma? and 911 others?

No criminal violates Justice like the FBI does every day.

[Mr. M.J.B.]

...and are not supposed to use them in domestic criminal investigations.

Oh brother, fairy tale land again.

[Mr. M.J.B.]

Exactly, exactly, exactly.

[Carry_Okie]

Somebody tell Chris Christie. /s

[VerySadAmerican]

I just keep getting reminded why I regret ever voting for a Bush.

[Carry_Okie]

They would have had Hillary's classified information emails from her private server as well as emails to her from some unsavory people

They would have also read Huma Abedin's emails which should prove to be very interesting re the Moslem Brotherhood, etc.

What makes you think they haven't?

[Carry_Okie]

This will be stopped under Trump.

Cruz and Paul are the only candidates who have come out against NSA data collection.

[444Flyer]

"...Enjoy it while you can boys, this happy time isn’t forever."

No it isn't. But this is:

~Romans 14:10-12:

But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

That is forever!

[sheik yerbouty]

Beelzebama says “spread tyranny throughout the land”..

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

WISHIN’ AND HOPING’

[GOPJ]

Did Radley Balko give a flip about Tea Party members being targeted by the IRS?

[Carry_Okie]

Did Radley Balko give a flip about Tea Party members being targeted by the IRS?

Actually, he would. The guy is a libertarian, not a leftist.

[Carry_Okie]

WISHIN' AND HOPING’

Is one of your hands feeling a little warm?

[LucyT]

Back to the thread.

In a ruling last month, Federal Court Judge John Gleeson has become the first to admit the existence of the NSA’s infamous PRISM program by name, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLUO.)

PRISM, as you’ll recall, was a program that gained a fair bit of notoriety after Edward Snowden’s 2013 document leaks were made public. The program allowed “collection [of user] data directly from the server’s” of American tech companies, like Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, Google, AOL and others.

The companies in question have all spoken out saying, to their knowledge, none gave the NSA such access.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/10/a-federal-judge-just-blew-the-cover-off-the-nsas-worst-kept-secret/

[Smokin' Joe]

Just imagine what historical despots, tyrants, and totalitarians could have done with today’s tech, because, barring some major incident, the next one will have the stuff they could only dream of for rooting out opposition.

[Smokin' Joe]

Open your eyes. Totalitarians are where you find them.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

CS Lewis

Beware those too quick to call you 'brother'.

[Smokin' Joe]

This will be stopped under Trump.

If that comes to pass, I hope so. However, in that case, I lack your faith.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

‘Cruz and Paul are the only candidates who have come out against NSA data collection.’

Good point. Trump is more anti-terrorism oriented. Clear difference. When it comes to data-mining non-muslims I disagree with Trump.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Important find, nachum!

Wading through the Washington Compost. What a patriot!

[SkyPilot]

And we don’t have to guess who’s going to suffer this unconstitutional indignity the most brutally. It’ll be Black, Brown, poor, immigrant, Muslim, and dissident Americans

Errr.....wellll...no.

Not with the racist "Just US" thugs we have in control at the levers of law enforcement and the courts today.

No too much "diversity" in this photo, is there?

And look the tyrannical fascism they employ:

Loretta Lynch Vows to Prosecute Anti-Muslim Speech

US Attorney General: We’ve ‘Discussed’ Prosecuting Climate Change Deniers

The groups that will be persecuted and prosecuted are Christians, Veterans, Americans of European descent, Libertarians, Conservatives, Gun Owners, Pro-Lifers, Constitutionalists, Patriots, Climate Change "Deniers", and those who oppose unrestricted Illegal Immigration and the coming Globalist System.