The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time.
The highly classified program, code-named PRISM, has not been disclosed publicly before. Its establishment in 2007 and six years of exponential growth took place beneath the surface of a roiling debate over the boundaries of surveillance and privacy. Even late last year, when critics of the foreign intelligence statute argued for changes, the only members of Congress who knew about PRISM were bound by oaths of office to hold their tongues.
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“They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” a government officer quoted by the Post said.
When the Patriot Act, so called so that no one could argue with its name and therefore had to support it, is now rearing its ugly head.
This was obvious when it was enacted. Why the surprise now? Why is it so incredible to discover that the government’s enemy is us. I recall the invasive and absurd process of boarding a plane at SFO some years ago swearing at what we had allowed Bin Laden to do to us. Fear led us to apathetically enable the government, untrammelled intrusion into the most intimate corners of our selves.
Always a student of those who demonstrated insight and prescience, I think it’s never too late to heed Benjamin Franklin’s, “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
We are waaaayyyyyy down the road on that one.
We also allowed companies in the high tech game, way too much leeway in the use and abuse of OUR Information.
Republicans Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) & Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) are today touting the need and virtues of the Patriot Act, even as the writer of the legislation states that it was never intended for the law to go this far. In the wake of this unconstitutional seizure of the records of innocent Americans, without even a suspicion of criminal activity, makes it very clear that we have to vote ALL these tyrannical progressive elite out of office and put Constitution and freedom loving statesmen in office, who will clean out that foul cesspool in Washington DC. Washington DC has stepped over the line into totalitarianism.
Repeal The Patriot Act now!
Start recall campaigns on all of those who do not take action to reinstate all our Constitution’s Bill of Rights, and that invalidates every law, act, regulation or presidential order that seeks to limit those rights.
here is the proof of why they won the election with GOOGLE HELP
hidden underneath the floor,
not even the multiple laptops upstairs found out.
we learn it by a young who was there to check things for the CONSERVATIVES,