NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years
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Re: NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years
#2Pleass stop posting circa trash.
Re: NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years
#3Pleass stop posting circa trash.
Shoot the messenger, huh. If you don't realize there is a problem with "702" authorizations, whether it involves your preferred candidate Obama or not, then maybe you aren't paying attention?
Do you want Trump or any president, or more accurately, unelected intel agencies abusing power like this with no recourse and no oversight?[0]
Doesn't this concern you? Well.. it's up for reauthorization later in the year, and now there is extensive evidence it lacks oversight and has been abused.
Politicians of both parties have turned a blind eye to the problems, and if you follow some of the proceedings in Congress lately, they are loathe to criticize or even bring up the issue in depth. They all want this to continue.
Does anyone care?
[0] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170514/10071637362/inspe...
Re: NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years
#4Pleass stop posting circa trash.
Shoot the messenger, huh. If you don't realize there is a problem with "702" authorizations, whether it involves your preferred candidate Obama or not, then maybe you aren't paying attention? Do you want Trump or any president, or more accurately, unelected intel agencies abusing power like this with no recourse and no oversight?[0] Doesn't this concern you? Well.. it's up for reauthorization later in the year, and n…
Agree completely. And I can't imagine that the self-disclosures at the end of the current term will be worse than this.
Re: NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years
#5How is this a surprise? The US government is pure evil. It has always been. You don't have to believe me, just read the documents written by the founding fathers, particularly Federalist Paper #10.
Few people appreciate that the main reason the US constitution is so protective of individual liberties is that the founding fathers hated each other profoundly, but they hated the British even more. So they created a system of government that would protect the new country from the British while at the same time protecting the founding fathers from each other.
The US constitution and the US government are two different things. The former is probably the greatest document ever written in the history of political science. The latter was born evil, and continues to be evil to this day.
Re: NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years
#6Pleass stop posting circa trash.
Agreed. Impossible to read, horrible broken UI (pagination, really?). Fonts too large. Too much white space.
Re: NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years
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#8American here. I don't really care if the government spies on me. There are fewer terrorist attacks in the US than Europe and Asia. Seems like the NSA/CIA are successfully doing their job of protecting American citizens. What's not to like?
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#9data theft
Re: NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years
#10Pleass stop posting circa trash.
Shoot the messenger, huh. If you don't realize there is a problem with "702" authorizations, whether it involves your preferred candidate Obama or not, then maybe you aren't paying attention? Do you want Trump or any president, or more accurately, unelected intel agencies abusing power like this with no recourse and no oversight?[0] Doesn't this concern you? Well.. it's up for reauthorization later in the year, and n…
>Shoot the messenger, huh.
In this case: absolutely!
NSA stories are too important to be dragged down by some news aggregation platform trying to feign original, investigative journalism on a site that's borderline unusable on the desktop.
Circa literally numbers every passage—interspersing ads every few—while providing a cringe-worthy video of their reporter reading a script in a tone too grave to possibly be genuine.
>Do you want Trump or any president, or more accurately, unelected intel agencies abusing power like this with no recourse and no oversight?
That doesn't change the fact that clickbait trash is still clickbait trash, and should be discarded because it detracts from the quality of the overall discussion.