NSA Collecting Your Info From Verizon

[leroy]

I dont like this either.  It is as Anit-American and authoritarian as you can get.  It presumes that everybody needs watchin ALA the old soviet union.   Havin said that, my guess is that if a US citizen is charged and brought to trial (...guilty or not...) with evidence gathered here; it will be thrown out due to the Fourth Amendment.  Let's hope it gets tried real soon.

 

leroy

[vontar]

I was also surprised. It was their top story, and they were pretty detailed. I would say that they didn't have a choice because the story has gotten so much traction, but they included video of him contradicting himself in 2007; that is not normal for the liberals.

Or because they are still mad about their phone records being examined.

 

A couple more things like this and we might actually have an investigative media again.

Edited June 7, 2013 by vontar

[TMF]

A couple more things like this and we might actually have an investigative media again.

Whoa, I wouldn't even know what that's like.

[wewoapsiak]

Whistle blowers say all U.S. Citizens targeted (Democracynow.org)

 

Obama Administration defends NSA

 

NSA Slides on how PRISM collection program works.  Take note of the slide that shows the dates that PRISM starts monitoring each tech giant

 

Boehner Declines to Explain the need for PRISM.

 

T-Mobile doesn't provide info.  (States this halfway down page)

 

 

Long day of reading, saved up some links.  

 

It is ironic how this all comes out after the Xbox One was announced.  If you don't know, the XBO requires an internet connection at least once a day, and requires kinect connected in order to even work.  The new kinect has a camera / microphone that is supposedly always one so you can turn your XBO on just by saying so.  Everyone said people were crazy when it was said this would be a good way to spy on people, Microsoft might not have intended it that way, but I'm sure the NSA or other 3 letter organizations are trying to figure out a way to use it for their benefit. :tinfoil:  :panic:  :tinfoil:

[Guest TankerHC]

So again, old news made public prior to 2006. Here's a link on the entire story and not just Verizon, it includes AT&T and Bell South, the only holdout was Quest. This entire "Big Deal" story was reported in detail on May10th, 2006 referring all the way back to 2001. Why all the hoopla now? Everyone was told about it in 2006, and 7, and 8 and 9 and 10,11 and 12, all they had to do is read USA Today.

 

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA

Edited June 7, 2013 by TankerHC

[Guest 6.8 AR]

I think they let it out to let us know they can do whatever they want to do, until they get the push back. It

has been going on for years. They also let it slip to let our enemies know where not to talk. Hitler's boys

used to do these things, also, just with different results: concentration camp or death, no cake.

[Hershmeister]

The missing outrage in this as well as the irs scandal is that no .gov worker refused to participate in these activities much less leak them early on.

It's a reminder of how powerfully limiting on morals and principles having and needing a job can be.

If you ever wondered how the holocaust could have happened when the nazis needed the participation of an entire country's workforce to administer the operational aspects, this is exactly how.

And if anyone believes that only phone tracking data is captured, and not the digital record of your call contents, you're smoking something

PS: anyone who has amazon prime, you can watch the movie 1984 for free. Take a look and weep