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In 2016, the National Security Agency gathered 151 million call records even though Congress made rules to reduce the federal government's sweeping surveillance of Americans' phone records. A new report shows the NSA might have collected additional call data it wasn't authorized to obtain again last year.
The American Civil Liberties Union released documents on Wednesday that it says show the NSA's "unlawful" collection of call detail records, or CDRs, of Americans in October 2018. This comes months after the NSA purged millions of call records.
"These documents further confirm that this surveillance program is beyond redemption and a privacy and civil liberties disaster," Patrick Toomey, staff attorney with the ACLU's National Security Project, said in a letter Wednesday. "The NSA's collection of Americans' call records is too sweeping, the compliance problems too many, and evidence of the program's value all but nonexistent. There is no justification for leaving this surveillance power in the NSA's hands."
Iran, China, Russia, and North Korea are the greatest threats to America's freedom?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 27 2019, @02:25AM (3 children)
This is rhetorical question, isn't it?
(Score: 1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday June 27 2019, @03:17AM (2 children)
No, I think it will go down like this:
Israel and the CIA (and every other domestic agency as well as other foreign agencies, with restrictions) get the NSA metadata to identify anti-Israel discontents when the war with Iran is inevitably false-flagged.
As I've stated before, 9/11 was the last chance to recruit true patriots into service because they believed they did the right thing. Now, everybody and their mom who isn't already serving for welfare reasons (except Israelis or otherwise loyal Jews who emigrated after their stints in the IDF and joined as sleeper-agents in the American military) knows that the next Middle-east war is pure bullshit. When America attacks Iran for some bullshit reason, domestic Americans will increasingly turn against the Israeli agenda. Organizations such as AIPAC and the ADL will be called out. Fortunately for Mossad, they have a lot of operatives working for American government and quasi-government organizations (as well as friendly undercover businesses) all around our Southern border and elsewhere. Israel identifies through NSA data the domestic American anti-Israeli discontents, pass that on to their America-based operatives, and have their proxy hit squads MS-13 and others who are friendly Mexicans or who just look like Mexicans attack those discontents in random yet suspicious violence just as happened to Seth Rich. Mossad is operating, against American citizens, on America's own soil; and many people in our Governmental organizations are aware of that.
People such as Larry Ellison are already "donating" millions of dollars to Friends of the IDF, and many hole-in-the-wall businesses that managed to stay in business for years and yet never have any customers inside are doing the same.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday June 27 2019, @03:21AM (1 child)
But what happens to all these military-age male illegal immigrants that Trump has allowed to pour through our borders, that aren't affiliated with Israel or some other ulterior motive? Yep, you guessed it, they get to join the military and fight bullshit wars in exchange for the dangling carrot of citizenship...again. Still costly, but at least it ain't our boys. Shit, the military will go back to the George W. Bush days when military barracks resembled barrios and inner-city housing projects, and complete with gang graffiti.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday June 27 2019, @04:13PM
"Remember, Service, Guarantees Citizenship!" Or something like that. -- Starship Troopers
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"