Has the NSA Exceeded Its Authority?
Al Ritter
As reported today in a new article by The
Guardian from another reported violation by Edward Snowden the NSA
whistleblower, some 200 million SMS text messages are being kept in their entirety.
Lawmakers have been warily eyeing “metadata” mining for some time as a procedure
this is ripe for abuse. Now abuse seems to be relevant to be used in the
conversation.
Operation “Dishfire”
actually spells out the ENTIRE message, user, and location is recorded into
this data logging system. Also stored from these text conversations is
financial info and passwords. The possibility for massive abuse is now a
reality!
No arguments can now be used claiming that the legality
exists but abuse never has. For too long we have traded security for liberty
and freedom, and now we see that at 11AM this morning President Obama will be
trying to rationalize their behavior and convince that this isn’t the normal
operation of the NSA.
The Patriot Act was a bad stop gap method to start these
major data collection systems. President actually had an expiration date for
the Patriot Act, but President Obama has used that Act to place blame on Bush.
Obama could have and should have closed down the Patriot Act but has chosen to
abuse this to serve his own purposes.
The Supreme Court doesn’t seem to want to shut this
collection down either, but rather to be complicit in the invasion of privacy
of our citizens and citizens world-wide. What group in their right minds would
give such an authority of trust?
4 comments:
Big Brother Obama is not only watching, he is collecting and preparing. If he is allowed to follow his plan to fruition, he will make Nazi Germany look like a boy scout convention.
With the enacting of the patriot act, we have set the "Rise of the Fourth Reich" in motion.
ITS ALL ABOUT HIM AL
What will it take before we 'do' something to put and end to this man's step's to destroy our country? How I wish you could and would run for office...thanks for sharing Al!
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