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Edward Snowden along with NSA whistleblowers Thomas Drake and William Binney will be seen as national heroes and brave American patriots. These great men posses the courage to do what few others are willing to and that is pay the price for defending the US Constitution. 50 years from now, our children's children will be learning in school about heroic men of conscience like Edward Snowden who did what needed to be done to preserve our liberties at a very dark time in our nation’s history.
Not sure how a browser/ip checker relates to this topic. The idea that using a VPN will eliminate spying is flawed. Also this topic is related to data mining primarily on social networking.
We need new Senate investigations equivalent in scope to the Church Committee hearings of the 1970’s.
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The Church Committee was the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, a U.S. Senate committee chaired by Senator Frank Church (D-ID) in 1975. A precursor to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the committee investigated intelligence gathering for illegality by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after certain activities had been revealed by the Watergate affair.
Background
By the early years of the 1970s, the unpopularity of the Vietnam War and the unfolding Watergate scandal brought the era of minimal oversight to an abrupt halt. The United States Congress was determined to rein in the Nixon administration and to ascertain the extent to which the nation's intelligence agencies had been involved in questionable, if not outright illegal, activities.
A series of troubling revelations started to appear in the press concerning intelligence activities. First came the revelations of Christopher Pyle in January 1970 of the U.S. Army's spying on the civilian population and Sam Ervin's Senate investigations produced more revelations. Then on December 22, 1974, The New York Times published a lengthy article by Seymour Hersh detailing operations engaged in by the CIA over the years that had been dubbed the "family jewels". Covert action programs involving assassination attempts against foreign leaders and covert attempts to subvert foreign governments were reported for the first time. In addition, the article discussed efforts by intelligence agencies to collect information on the political activities of US citizens.
These revelations convinced many Senators and Representatives that the Congress itself had been too lax, trusting, and naive in carrying out its oversight responsibilities.
Senator Dianne Feinstein (a well known shill for the NSA) needs to step aside or resign altogether and allow serious oversight of an agency which has clearly run amok. BTW, Senator Feinstein is 80 years old and probably doesn't even understand the technology and its nefarious capabilities employed by the NSA.
Senator Dianne Feinstein (a well known shill for the NSA) needs to step aside or resign altogether and allow serious oversight of an agency which has clearly run amok. BTW, Senator Feinstein is 80 years old and probably doesn't even understand the technology and its nefarious capabilities employed by the NSA.
It’s unbelievable isn’t it? How can someone that old and out of touch with technology be the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee? No wonder the NSA is running roughshod over her.
We live in a time when the best science fiction writers of the 20th century couldn’t even imagine the surveillance equipment available to governments today and the person minding the store and providing oversight was born when many houses in the United States didn’t even have electricity.
It’s unbelievable isn’t it? How can someone that old and out of touch with technology be the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee? No wonder the NSA is running roughshod over her.
We live in a time when the best science fiction writers of the 20th century couldn’t even imagine the surveillance equipment available to governments today and the person minding the store and providing oversight was born when many houses in the United States didn’t even have electricity.
It also looks like they might pass that bill this time, which could have major effects on Whistle Blowers and everyone else.
They have tried many times. In typical fashion they are spinning it as protection.
It covers much, including the Big T and Patriot Act.
Obama specifically asked for this when the WH drama was going on with Snowden iirc.
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None dare call it Domestic Surveillance
