NSA boss Keith Alexander's next target is the 1st Amendment.

techdirt.com ^ | Fri, Oct 25th 2013 | Mike Masnick

[redgolum]

No States like free speech. To much information has been the enemy of governments since the dawn of time. Look at the Alien and Sedation act in the US for starters.

[Telepathic Intruder]

I don’t remember a time when the 1st Amendment hasn’t been under attack from the left. The “fairness doctrine” they’re always pining for has one major net effect (which they refuse to admit it has): to silence political speech, especially conservative speech. Nancy Pelosi has said she’d vote for it in a heartbeat. And everyone knows what they think about freedom of religious expression.

[foxfield]

Sedation???

[lafarge]

This guy needs to be tried, convicted and punished for treason.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I fondly hope for many mass firings when we get sanity back in DC.

[Sherman Logan]

"I think it’s wrong that that newspaper reporters have all these documents, the 50,000—whatever they have and are selling them and giving them out as if these—you know it just doesn’t make sense," Alexander said in an interview with the Defense Department's "Armed With Science" blog.

The government does not have, nor should it, power to punish media for publishing anything they wish.

However, if it is a crime for me to be in possession of classified documents, it is equally a crime for a reporter to be. The press does not have carte blanche to break laws in pursuit of a story.

[Wurlitzer]

“Nancy Pelosi has said she’d vote for it in a heartbeat. “

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I for one hope that she and her fellow progressive travelers have very few of those remaining.

[BullDog108]

I fondly hope for many mass firings when we get sanity back in DC.

When? Hopefully if! The way it is looking now is that the tree of liberty is going to be fed...

[Hardastarboard]

Both pretend that the news reports said that 70 million calls were recorded . Alexander mocks this by pointing out it would be impossible to have so many calls listened to, and to find enough translators to understand them.

Alexander thinks we're stupid. They undoubtedly have voice recognition software that is tuned to look for key words and phrases. You don't have to have people listening. You've got machines now.

[Telepathic Intruder]

The fact that they're breathing OUR air is just the last straw.

[PghBaldy]

Good points.

[sport]

Alexander thinks we're stupid

With the election and re-election of barrack Obama, the election and re-election of other Democrats and last but not least, the election and re-election of still more Democrats, these posing as Republicans, I would say he has a good case.

[driftdiver]

The role of the secret police is to always want more information, more control, more power. Its how its worked throughout history.

The fact we have a military General in charge of this should scare us.

[driftdiver]

We’re not stupid, we the Conservatives are divided and our power is muted. The leftists have been working on this for generations and are using tax dollars to fund it.

[SgtBob]

Yeah...you remember, back in ‘47? Roswell, NM? Space ship crash? Aliens were sedated and transported to Area 51...:-)

[RetiredArmy]

I suspect before the Obama regime is finished, they will try to tear down all the Bill of Rights, the Amendments to the Constitution and the very Constitution itself. Oh, they already ignore the Constitution, so just getting rid of it is not hard work for the dictatorship in D.C. This is what I see this guy as, a dictator. In my life time of service to my country, I never felt the way towards a president that I do this man.

I did not like Jimmy Carter for a minute, but this guy is worse. Carter was basically a little clown. He had nothing to offer to the nation. This guy is a dangerous man. He has set himself up above everyone else and the very founding documents of this Republic. He thinks everything is about him and no one else matters. I could never have served under this president. I would have walked away from a military career because I could not follow this man and what he is doing to my military and the people in it. HE is not telling me that I cannot pray in the name of MY LORD!!! He is not telling me that I cannot share my LORD with anyone else. If he thinks he rules, he is wrong. There is ONLY ONE RULE and HE IS JESUS CHRIST!! Fools such as the dictator in DC do not rule. The are wannabees. But he IS a never be. Only through FORCE can people like him rule.

[Brad from Tennessee]

It was announced about 10 days ago that Alexander and his senior deputy are leaving NSA.

[null and void]

Buckle up everyone, the gloves are coming off.

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[null and void]

I fondly hope for many mass firings when we get sanity back in DC.

I think, thanks to our government's malignant inaction, Iran will be capable firing all of Washington in a single go in a month or so.

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