Pic Of The Moment: NSA Collecting Phone Records Of Millions Of Americans Daily

[EarlG]

GOP Sen. Graham says he's 'glad' NSA is collecting phone records

Democratic Sen. Merkley: NSA Committing 'Outrageous Breach' Of Privacy

What You Should Know About The Government's Massive Domestic Surveillance Program

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[L0oniX]

1. I think the NSA should concentrate on snooping up deputy dogs ass.

[awoke_in_2003]

3. Our brave democratic congressmen...

and our constitutional scholar president fearlessly renewed the Patriot Act. It makes me sick.

[SamKnause]

2. NSA

Further proof that Republicans are LIARS.

They are in favor of BIG INTRUSIVE government and CURTAILING civil liberties and rights.

They do not care anything about the Constitution, the citizens of this country, or the ideals of this country.

Republicans are the ANTI AMERICAN Party of LIARS !!!!!

President Obama is following in their footsteps.

He is guilty in his deeds and actions.

Both parties are nothing more than con men and women out to fill their pockets and to attain power.

The government of the U.S. is a sickening cesspool of corrupt thieves and liars.

We the people have no voice or power.

They have stolen our rights and sold our country out from under us.

Long live the United States of Corporations and the MIC.

May the United States of America rest in peace.

[awoke_in_2003]

4. Jim Hightower once said something to the effect...

That America could use a third party, and it desperately needs a second.

[TommyCelt]

8. +1

[L0oniX]

18. They ALL voted for the Patriot Act and its permanent renewal.

[Adam-Bomb]

21. Um, calm down a bit there

Senators Reid AND Finestein both agree with Senator Graham, they said so today on TV.

Can't freaking trust NOBODY. Can't wait to find out how many NC senators knew about this.

[Half-Century Man]

5. If they insist, lets have fun with it

Get a grassroots movement going, get everybody angry at this to randomly dial 5 people a day and say bomb, bomb, bomb. 3,000,000 people x 5 a day +trigger words as a protest.
If nothing else helps out unemployment as NSA picks up people to cover the extra 5,475,000,000 calls a year.

[WillyT]

6. HUGE K & R !!!

[Nimajneb Nilknarf]

7. Endorsed.

[blkmusclmachine]

9. No Patriots in DC!

[Major Hogwash]

10. This is just pure unadulterated bullshit!!

Ben Franklin never had a fucking phone!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

11. more to the point, we have much more liberty now then we had in 1776

I can't believe I can skype for free to my friends in England. Compare that to communication in 1776.

[cantbeserious]

20. Your Point Is Lost On Me

eom

[SleeplessinSoCal]

23. Skype? It's free. It connects people all over the world. A lot of liberty.

How do you manage threats to security after we practically blasted Iraq off the map?

[pansypoo53219]

12. are we making too many haystacks hiding the pin?

[AndyA]

13. I'll side with Ben Franklin and Sen. Jeff Merkley.

I wouldn't trust Sen. Lindsay Graham as far as I could move the Empire State Building by hand.

[Locrian]

14. great stuff, except...

I wish people would stop saying it's a 'privacy issue'. While it is very true, the framing weakens (IMHO) the issue.

It's about POWER. Balance of power. This is about having POWER over you, me, everyone. It should PISS PEOPLE OFF and they should see it as someone holding you under their thumb.

Information is power, they have it, you don't. They have secrecy (ie privacy), you don't. They have info to do whatever they want with and you have no control over that.

[Cryptoad]

15. nah

We are under a massive terrorist attack from the Right with one purpose on their minds,,,,, total collapse of our government,,,, I for one am glad the government is keeping a sharp eye on these tea baggers and such!

how is the government checking to see if your phone number has called or been called by known terrorist phone number, an invasion of your privacy ... oh please

[SouthernLiberal]

17. I haven't done anything wrong, and I worry.

If a 'known' terrorist phone number is involved, the government could tell who is calling them and who they are calling by collecting the phone records for that number. And they could probably even get a warrant.

So that is not likely to be what they are looking for. I really cannot think of how they could possibly get information out of millions of phone records unless they knew what they were looking for. If they did know, they wouldn't need the millions of phone records. So I suspect that what they really look for are patterns. Not that you called a terrorist, but that you use your phone in a similar way as someone who called a terrorist. Never mind that you only called friends and family, honest Americans all. You showed a terrorist-like pattern of calling.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

16. I'm waiting for the tv "news" person to bring up OWS. What about their liberties?

[whatchamacallit]

22. Hells yeah, Earl G!

K&R

[midnight]

24. K&R More jobs, and less spying please and thank you....

[Fire Walk With Me]

25. Bravo! K&R!