Northwest Indiana Discussion

Wrong again, moron.
I really don't have to defend Barry, he handed Mitt Romney his ass in November and that is why I don't waste time with idiot mouth breathing trolls like you.
Enjoy:


From another forum:

WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading Republican senator on Tuesday described controversial U.S. spy programs as looking far deeper into Americans’ phone records than the Obama administration has been willing to admit, fueling new privacy concerns as Congress sought to defend the surveillance systems.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC., says the U.S. intelligence surveillance of phone records allows analysts to monitor U.S. phone records for a pattern of calls, even if those numbers have no known connection to terrorism.

Graham says the National Security Agency then matches phone numbers against known terrorists. Graham helped draft the surveillance law that governs the surveillance program.

The office of the director of national intelligence declined to comment.

The FBI has dramatically increased its use of a controversial provision of the Patriot Act to secretly obtain a vast store of business records of U.S. citizens under President Barack Obama, according to recent Justice Department reports to Congress. The bureau filed 212 requests for such data to a national security court last year – a 1,000-percent increase from the number of such requests four years earlier, the reports show.

The FBI’s increased use of the Patriot Act’s “business records” provision — and the wide ranging scope of its requests — is getting new scrutiny in light of last week’s disclosure that that the provision was used to obtain a top-secret national security order requiring telecommunications companies to turn over records of millions of telephone calls.

Taken together, experts say, those revelations show the government has broadly interpreted the Patriot Act provision as enabling it to collect data not just on specific individuals, but on millions of Americans with no suspected terrorist connections. And it shows that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court accepted that broad interpretation of the law.

“That they were using this (provision) to do mass collection of data is definitely the biggest surprise,” said Robert Chesney, a top national security lawyer at the University of Texas Law School. “Most people who followed this closely were not aware they were doing this. We’ve gone from producing records for a particular investigation to the production of all records for a massive pre-collection database. It’s incredibly sweeping.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is weighing whether to charge a government contractor with leaking classified government secrets while it defends a much-criticized National Security Agency surveillance program as an indispensable tool for protecting Americans from terrorists.

Facing a global uproar over the programs that track phone and Internet messages around the world, the Justice Department continued to investigate whether the disclosures of Edward Snowden, 29, an employee of government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, were criminal.

Meanwhile, the European Parliament planned to debate the spy programs Tuesday and whether they have violated local privacy protections. EU officials in Brussels pledged to seek answers from U.S. diplomats at a trans-Atlantic ministerial meeting in Dublin later this week.

The global scrutiny comes after revelations from Snowden, who has chosen to reveal his identity. Snowden has fled to Hong Kong in hopes of escaping criminal charges as lawmakers including Senate intelligence chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California accuse him of committing an “act of treason” that should be prosecuted.

Obama has continued Bush's violation of civil rights at the misguided claim of homeland security, he has then upped the ante and taken them to new heights.....

Hyperbole much?
Don't worry matt, like the guy said, Barry is not personally listening in on your 1-900-HOOTERS calls.

Ahhh ....so you only know how to respond to fact with trying to insult?

The pure fact is that it is unconstitutional for the US Government to listen to US citizens in any fashion or form. Oh wait....wasn't it you that criticized Bush as treating the constitution as a god damn piece of paper?

The Patriot Act has been wrong since the beginning and has cost us freedoms at the misguided idea of homeland security.

It's factual information that Obama has authorized drone strikes against US citizens

and now the expansion of spying on US citizens communications.

The Patriot Act was mainly drafted by Joe Biden, in 1995...
(if you want a link, GOOGLE it yourself)

Bullshit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_Co ... ct_of_1995

Very credible.....and this is ONLY the tip of the iceberg.
...and a minute ago you wrote "BFD" then found a link to back up your Messiah....

Yep, BFD.
Yes, I'm sure you were just as outraged in 1995 as you you are now.

I doubt it moron....I was only 19 years old.

According to media reports, in 2002 President Bush signed a secret order authorizing the NSA to monitor e-mails, telephone calls and other communications of hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals without first obtaining warrants. Each involved the communications of a person who was in the United States communicating with a person abroad.
In January 2007, the Bush administration announced that it had abandoned its warrantless wiretapping program in favor of a new program it did not describe that is subject to approval of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Ah well then I'm sure you were outraged in 2006 when we found out that your hero George Bush was using warrentess wiretapping on US citizens since 2002, right?