Can the NSA collect all our phone conversations and emails, without warrants or oversight?
Orwellian: Big Brother is storing your emails automatically without your permission. This is a violation of the fourth amendment and has been occurring since the 9/11 tragedy. The NSA is the department responsible, and it has a carte-blanche to pursue an ongoing database.
Shhh. It’s Godwin’s law. Be careful about your every conversation on the phone, because it becomes an opportunity. They are listening to your every word. Can you say Stellar wind?
Kirk Wiebe, former senior analyst; and William Binney, former technical director, share their expertise on the subject via Viewpoint with Eliot Spizer.
Thomas Drake, a former senior executive of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), is against this invasion of privacy that the NSA keeps ignoring. Drake sheds light on the topic:
They really opened up a Pandora’s Box and under the excuse of 9/11 they just said hey, the constitution is null and void, and national security takes privacy. And… what’s now being created a decade plus later is a pernicious, persistent, and permanent database. The real risk and danger is this is something that’s not going to go away; and in secret they’re going to have access to it, and in secret they’ll be able to build dossiers on practically everybody they want to. Or go back in time to find out anything they would like to.
In speaking of electronic surveillance, we’re now treating the United States of America as equivalent of a foreign nation. What’s interesting is a lot of ex post facto laws have been passed since 9/11, particularly in the last 5 or 6 years, to essentially make legal what was critically illegal after 9/11.
The three men are involved in a legal case with the agency.
