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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust Curious... Why Is Everyone Totally Okay With The Government Spying On 'Foreigners?'
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-is-it-okay-to-spy-on-foreigners-2013-6It's okay to spy on them! They're foreign!
One bizarre aspect of this new debate about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs is that everyone only seems to be concerned about secret spying on Americans.
When the first allegations about NSA privacy abuses came out, the NSA and White House rushed to reassure everyone:
Yes, the surveillance program exists, but it only spies on foreigners.
And for a day or two, that actually appeared to satisfy everyone. Oh, we're only recording, tracking, and analyzing the communications of foreigners? Well, okay then. We just wanted be sure that the privacy abuses and Big Brother stuff wasn't being used on Americans.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-is-it-okay-to-spy-on-foreigners-2013-6#ixzz2VupxmJfP
frazzled
(18,402 posts)That's why we have an entire government arm devoted to spying (it's called the CIA, as well as military intelligence and NSA). They are set up, by Congress, to spy on foreigners.
Do you think that new technologies will not bring new forms of spying?
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Do they get spied on?
PS: kittehs rule!
Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)and don't worship baby Jeebus.
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)of our government.
Also, they're foreigners. It's our spy agencies' job to spy on foreigners.
Life Long Dem
(8,582 posts)Middle East countries where the terrorist are don't have the same rights we do. They don't need to issue warrants like they do here to look at phone records.
malaise
(269,256 posts)clearly guarantee the right to privacy.
Brits believed this same shite in the last century - now they are paying reparations to the Kenyan and others will demand their pound of flesh as well.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Call me callous.
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)I'm trying to think of a government, throughout history, that hasn't, and I'm coming up blank.
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)I don't know much about spying ..
I'll shut up now
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Especially dorkly ones! :p
Beer rules too. I think : )
Progressive dog
(6,928 posts)and costs trillions to protect us from foreigners? It's okay to buy weapons to kill them but never spy on them, cause they might stop buying from American companies.
noamnety
(20,234 posts)It sort of implies that we'd all be okay with other governments spying on us, just not our own.
randome
(34,845 posts)...I would have no problem with scaling back spying capabilities so long as it was accompanied by a closing of our military bases and public statements that we will refrain from meddling in other countries' affairs except under the auspices of the U.N.
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