Re: NSA whistleblowers: Government Spying on Every Single American

The attacks September 11, 2001, were instrumental in enabling the US
government to establish counterterrorism agencies to prevent future
tragedies.
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a good thing

it opens up a real danger
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yet provides more security
yes, the enemy is among us and must be monitored, at the expense of
individual privacy.
the guilty must be worried and found.

On Jul 25, 10:42 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> whistleblowers: Government Spying on Every Single
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> Don't worry folks. The government is just spying on us because they care.
>
> From RT.com <http://rt.com/usa/news/nsa-whistleblower-binney-drake-978/>:
>
> The TSA, DHS and countless other security agencies have been established to
> keep America safe from terrorist attacks in post-9/11 America. How far
> beyond that does the feds' reach really go, though?
>
> The attacks September 11, 2001, were instrumental in enabling the US
> government to establish counterterrorism agencies to prevent future
> tragedies. Some officials say that they haven't stopped there, though, and
> are spying on everyone in America — all in the name of national security.
>
> Testimonies delivered in recent weeks by former employees of the National
> Security Agency suggest that the US government is granting itself
> surveillance powers far beyond what most Americans consider the proper role
> of the federal government.
>
> In an interview broadcast on Current TV's "Viewpoint" program on Monday,
> former NSA Technical Director William Binney commented on the government's
> policy of blanket surveillance, alongside colleagues Thomas Drake and Kirk
> Wiebe, the agency's respective former Senior Official and Senior Analyst.
>
> The interview comes on the heels of a series of speeches given by Binney,
> who has quickly become better known for his whistleblowing than his work
> with the NSA. In their latest appearance this week, though, the three
> former staffers suggested that America's spy program is much more dangerous
> than it seems.
>
> In an interview with "Viewpoint" host Eliot Spitzer, Drake said there was a
> *"key decision made shortly after 9/11, which began to rapidly turn the
> United States of America into the equivalent of a foreign nation for
> dragnet blanket electronic surveillance."*
>
> These powers have previously defended by claims of national security
> necessity, but Drake says that it doesn't stop there. He warns that the
> government is giving itself the power to gather intel on every American
> that could be used in future prosecutions unrelated to terrorism.
>
> *"When you open up the Pandora's Box of just getting access to incredible
> amounts of data, for people that have no reason to be put under suspicion,
> no reason to have done anything wrong, and just collect all that for
> potential future use or even current use, it opens up a real danger — and
> to what else what they could use that data for, particularly when it's all
> being hidden behind the mantle of national security," *Drake said.
>
> Continue reading>>><http://rt.com/usa/news/nsa-whistleblower-binney-drake-978/>
>  *Scotty Starnes
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