Northwest Indiana Discussion

Wouldn't that be WARRANTLESS ???

You got it. So were you outraged like you are now?

Your illiteracy shows how weak and uninformed your opinions are.

OBAMA'S NSA SNOOPERS SUCK DATA 'FROM 50 COMPANIES'

Right.
That coming from a partisan moron who said this:

Is rich.

Talk about illiteracy, LOL, what an effing moron. Wow.

Sources: NSA sucks in data from 50 companies

Are you really that dense?
Nobody is listening to anything.
Simply recording which numbers called which numbers by a supercomputer is not unconstitutional any more for the government than it is for the phone company.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed this week that during a secret briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phone call could be accessed "simply based on an analyst deciding that."
If the NSA wants "to listen to the phone," an analyst's decision is sufficient, without any other legal authorization required, Nadler said he learned. "I was rather startled," said Nadler, an attorney and congressman who serves on the House Judiciary committee.
Not only does this disclosure shed more light on how the NSA's formidable eavesdropping apparatus works domestically, it also suggests the Justice Department has secretly interpreted federal surveillance law to permit thousands of low-ranking analysts to eavesdrop on phone calls.
Because the same legal standards that apply to phone calls also apply to e-mail messages, text messages, and instant messages, Nadler's disclosure indicates the NSA analysts could also access the contents of Internet communications without going before a court and seeking approval.

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

happen to be terrorists that have threatened to kill me. Sorry, I have no problem killing terrorists that want to kill me and I really don't give a sh*t if they are US citizens or not.

and now the expansion of spying on US citizens communications.

you're showing how dense you are. This has been going on since 2007, nothing has been expanded.

A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks. The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.”

There is little public support for the sweeping and unaccountable nature of the National Security Agency surveillance program along with concerns about how the data will be used.

Fifty-seven percent (57%) of voters nationwide believe it is likely the NSA data will be used by other government agencies to harass political opponents. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 30% consider it unlikely and 14% are not sure.

Big Brother is watching. And listening, and reading. And using your purchasing and communications history to hone algorithms that predict what you will buy and click on next.

Most Americans fear their privacy is eroding in all of those ways and more, the latest Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll has found. In an era of spreading surveillance cameras, cascading revelations about government’s collection of domestic and international communications, and online advertising triggered by users’ purchasing history, the survey said that an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that business, government, social-media sites, and other groups are accessing their most personal information without their consent.

One question elicited a remarkably broad sense that “businesses, government, individuals, and other groups” are accessing a wide array of sensitive personal information without consent. Even before last week’s disclosures that the federal government had obtained massive amounts of Verizon phone records and collected torrents of data from online service providers, the survey found that Americans believe their cell-phone, e-mail, and other communications history is more likely to be accessed without their consent than any other form of private information. A stunning 85 percent of those polled said they believed it was likely (including 58 percent who said it was “very likely”) that such information was being disclosed without their approval.

So for all your complaining about GWB's disregard for the constitution, you have no care for it yourself....

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), the head of the House Intelligence committee, told CNN on Sunday that the NSA "is not listening to Americans' phone calls" or monitoring their e-mails, and any statements to the contrary are "misinformation." It would be "illegal" for the NSA to do that, Rogers said.

The US constitution guarantees us a trial by our peers, not the ability for our government to terminate us...

Obama and Clapper from the NSA are playing legalese word games. He can try and claim that the NSA is not committing unconstitutional searches of phone and emails, but at the same time the NSA is paying outside firms such as Booz Allen, Narus and Verit to do it without restraint or oversight. It's bullshit and there is no other way to spin it!

The US constitution guarantees us a trial by our peers, not the ability for our government to terminate us...

Yeah, I bet Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger would agree with you.

LOL.....Defending Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, and Obama...all in the same breath. But then, why not?