Former Vice President Al Gore broke with many of his fellow Democrats Friday and said that the NSA surveillance programs violate the constitution.
"This in my view violates the constitution. The fourth amendment and the first amendment – and the fourth amendment language is crystal clear," he told The Guardian, which revealed the agency's phone surveillance and reported on its Internet data-mining. "It is not acceptable to have a secret interpretation of a law that goes far beyond any reasonable reading of either the law or the constitution and then classify as top secret what the actual law is."Former Vice President Al Gore broke with many of his fellow Democrats Friday and said that the NSA surveillance programs violate the constitution.
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Top National Security Experts: Spying Program Doesn’t Make Us Safer, and Spying Leaks Don’t Harm America
NSA Leaks Help – Rather than Hurt – the United States
America’s top national security experts say that the NSA’s mass surveillance program doesn’t make us safer … and that whistleblowers revealing the nature and extent of the program don’t harm America.
The top counter-terrorism czar under Presidents Clinton and Bush – Richard Clarke – notes:
The just-revealed surveillance stretches the law to its breaking point and opens the door to future potential abuses
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I am troubled by the precedent of stretching a law on domestic surveillance almost to the breaking point. On issues so fundamental to our civil liberties, elected leaders should not be so needlessly secretive.
The argument that this sweeping search must be kept secret from the terrorists is laughable. Terrorists already assume this sort of thing is being done. Only law-abiding American citizens were blissfully ignorant of what their government was doing.
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If the government wanted a particular set of records, it could tell the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court why — and then be granted permission to access those records directly from specially maintained company servers. The telephone companies would not have to know what data were being accessed. There are no technical disadvantages to doing it that way, although it might be more expensive.
Would we, as a nation, be willing to pay a little more for a program designed this way, to avoid a situation in which the government keeps on its own computers a record of every time anyone picks up a telephone? That is a question that should have been openly asked and answered in Congress.
The author of the Patriot Act and chairman on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations – Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner – says:
Lawmakers’ and the executive branch’s excuses about recent revelations of NSA activity are “a bunch of bunk”
The government has gone far beyond what the Patriot Act intended, and that section 215 of the act “was originally drafted to prevent data mining” on the scale that’s occurred
Whistleblower Edward Snowden is not a traitor, and Sensenbrenner would not have known the extent of abuse by the NSA and the FISA court without Snowden’s disclosures
The Patriot Act needs to be amended to protect Americans’ privacy
The government has gone far beyond what the Patriot Act intended, and that section 215 of the act “was originally drafted to prevent data mining” on the scale that’s occurred
Whistleblower Edward Snowden is not a traitor, and Sensenbrenner would not have known the extent of abuse by the NSA and the FISA court without Snowden’s disclosures
The Patriot Act needs to be amended to protect Americans’ privacy
RECALL THEM ALL
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/recall-them-all-nsa.html
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/recall-them-all-nsa.html
The NSA scandal currently running in Washington DC reveals a stunning contempt for the PEOPLE.
That the NSA was running Mass Surveillance programs was common knowledge to anyone who bothered to look for over 10 years, a staffer could find out most of it in less than a day.
Either individual members of Congress are :-
Totally incompetent and unable to do the job they were supposedly elected to do - look after the interests of the PEOPLE
Were wilfully ignorant of the Mass Surveillance programs - they are lapdogs of Party leaders, whatever abuses the Party leaders might choose to do.
Knew roughly what the NSA was doing but chose to support the interests of Large Corporations over the rights of the PEOPLE.
The intel business is an $85bn a year money making machine for private contractors.
The security of the United States should NOT be in the hands of private contractors whose motive is PROFIT not AMERICA.
The intel business is an $85bn a year money making machine for private contractors.
The security of the United States should NOT be in the hands of private contractors whose motive is PROFIT not AMERICA.
Whichever reason is true for each and every member of Congress, it is time to RECALL THEM ALL.
Replace them with people who want to look after the interests of the PEOPLE not take the lobbyist dime for the large Corporations.
Replace them with people who want to look after the interests of the PEOPLE not take the lobbyist dime for the large Corporations.
Recall anyone who voted for the FISA amendment and extension passed into "Law" in December 2012.
Recall anyone who voted for extending the Patriot Act.
Recall anyone who voted for NDAA indefinite detention.
Recall anyone who voted for the abomination the law and the total disrespect for the Constitution that these Acts were.
Recall anyone who has patently broken their oath to "Defend the Constitution For the United States".
Over 500 members of Congress will be recalled through these criteria.
Congress has a 16% approval rating.
It's time to START AGAIN - the current members of Congress cannot be trusted.
Over 500 members of Congress will be recalled through these criteria.
Congress has a 16% approval rating.
It's time to START AGAIN - the current members of Congress cannot be trusted.
RECALL THEM ALL.
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