Everything You Wanted to Know about NSA Spying … But Were Afraid to Ask

Spying: The Big Picture

If you’ve been too busy to keep up with the spying scandal, here’s an overview:

• The government is spying on virtually everything we do

• The government’s mass spying doesn’t keep us safe

• NSA spying did not prevent a terror attack on Wall Street

• There is no meaningful oversight of the spying programs by either Congress or the courts

• We can keep everyone safe without violating the Constitution … more cheaply and efficiently than the current system

• The top counter-terrorism Czar under Clinton and Bush says that revealing NSA spying programs does not harm national security

• Whistleblowers on illegal spying have no “legal” way to get the information out

• A high-level intelligence source says “we hack everyone everywhere”

• Some people make a lot of money off of mass spying

• Spying started before 9/11 … and may have stemmed from an emergency program only meant to be activated in the case of a nuclear war

• Governments and big corporations are doing everything they can to destroy anonymity

• Mass spying creates an easy mark for hackers

• Polls show that the public doesn’t believe the NSA

• Surveillance can be used to frame you if someone in government happens to take a dislike to you

• An NSA whistleblower says that the NSA is spying on – and blackmailing – top government officials and military officers (and see this)

Read more at :-
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/07/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-spying-but-were-afraid-to-ask.html