Do you think the NSA is reading this right now?  Don't they have something better to do?
612903
How would the NSA know if two al-Qaeda members were talking inside the USA, they don't listen to conversations, so they say. The terrorists with box cutters responsible for the 9-11 attacks were already here, and now that president G.W. Bush has announced what the NSA is not doing, they will probably have conversations in code if their known to be terrorists or suspected.
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It never ceases to surprise me how these unsuspecting little republican twats keep chanting "its for our protection", "i have not lost any freedom". Yeah you have, you don't even have the freedom to walk to your airplane without having to take off your freaking shoes at least once. You don't have the freedom to speak freely, lest some secret agent infiltrates your group and spies on you. You think it goes away at one fell swoop? No. It goes away bit by bit. Slowly enough for you not to perceive. Try calling someone outside the country. They will spy on your phone call. They use what is called "network analysis" (network analysis my ass) to find who you are associated with. If you know someone that knows someone that knows someone that knows someone that knows.... with a muslim name, they are probably spying on your phone too!!\n\nThe whole "terrorist attack" is an elaborate ploy. What terrorists? Why aren't we looking for Osama? "I am not that concerned about him." -- Bush on Osama, the same person he wanted dead or alive.\n\nNot too long ago in a certain country fire destroyed one of its most important buildings. The government blamed it on some immigrant workers. In the aftermath the government also enacted a law that retracted civil liberties of the people. The same government persecuted homosexuals, people of other religions and races and political dissidents. In the years to follow this government invaded a couple countries on the pretext of "protecting western civilization" from the influence of those countries while actually the reason was to expand their region of control. The invasions started a major conflict in the area that quickly grew out of control.\nMuch later when peace was restored, it was found out that the original fire was actually started by the government itself in order to get the ball rolling towards its ultimate goal of world domination.\n\nThink you have heard that storyline before? Think its about the Bush administration? No. It's actually from history, the Reichstag fire and subsequent Nazi Germany.\n\nI wonder if netjr is actually an illegitimate child of Bush. He defends the guy so vigorously: there must be a blood relation.
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I dont think well ever know exactly what our governemnt is doing, but with good watchdog organizations out there helping to keep an eye on them it is helping some. I wish there was a way to know more. There is too much secret shenanigans going on in our government that we dont know about untill the damage is done.
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He is doing all his evil in his own selfish interest and in the interest of his cronies and wealthy supporters.\n\n-----------------------\nAND NOW AN ASIDE TO loving_father: \nWE ALL HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE. For example, I am sure you do not want every stranger in the world to know your actual name, home address, name of that precious little girl in your avatar picture, and the name of the school she goes to. Not to mention your credit card numbers, banking information, and so on.\n\nI certainly know that I do not want the general public to know any of that about me and mine.\n\nSo, yes, we ALL have things to hide, and for perfectly good reasons. I am sure I have met more NSA employees than most people have. They are, on the whole, intelligent, honest, fine, upstanding folks, but they are also, for the most part, underpaid and overworked. And many of them spend too much time with the less than desirable elements of our society. In other words, the same factors that make good cops go bad are in operation at the NSA too.\n\nI really don't need some NSA wiretapper to decide to go phishing while I am giving out credit or banking info on the phone. Why even tempt them with that? Better that they should just keep their ears out of our phone lines without a warrant, just as God and the 4th Amendment intended.
8907
no! it makes me feel less safe in my own daily environment, and i know a lot of people that feel the same way. not only are the nsa's domestic spying operations illegal, but they are irrelevant, if not counterproductive, to achieving a real sense of security for the average american.
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Are you sure that it is classified information or propoganda?   Sometimes the military uses the net to pass accross junk data to fool the enemy.  (Military tactics)\n\nIf you are concerned, contact the FBI or you can even call Department of Homeland security and they will get it to the proper authorities.
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I don't know about the best, but I've heard a funny one.  To paraphrase, "a hacker has gained control of satellites and is beaming down mind control rays"...then the guy went on to post 'evidence' of this being true (like Bush writing his not asking if it was okay to use the restroom).  The sad part is, this guy was being serious.  See source link for his full description of what he thinks is happening.
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Privacy is an illusion.\n\nCourts can subpeona for any information.\n\nAre you trying to not pay for your kids?
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Unless you are engaging in activity that could be construed as aiding and abetting terrorism, I think you are being overly paranoid.\n\nThe government is engaging in those activities, but it has more to do with data mining. The government has a program called Tempest that is capable of monitoring electronics within the nation, but it does not do so arbitarily. Tempest runs in the background. When certain key phrases come up (for instance, "I want to kill the President"), Tempest roars to life and signals agents that someone to watch out for has been identified.\n\nThe government does not just arbitrarily say, "I think I'm gonna listen in on Sam's conversation tonight and see what pops up." That is like finding a needle in a haystack.
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Nah......it's more like they are "hamming" it up.
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I speak from across the fence on this matter, but I will let you know what I hear most often. The Patriot Act that has broadened the government's ability to seek information from it's fellow citizens has left some more liberal voters upset. They feel that the government's noose of power has grown a bit tighter, and I assume they foresee a future government domination over the people of this nation. I do not know of any firsthand accounts where someone's privacy rights have been infringed upon, or violated. Not that I wish there was, but there doesn't seem to be anyone personally hurt by the Act. Personally, I've felt that as long as man would uphold his responsibilites to treat his fellow man with love, and respect there would be no need for government at all. But we both know that we fail to do this, therefore creating a need for government. So if the privilages we enjoy so dearly seem in danger, I believe it is because of our own faults. I hope that this has been helpful.
547105
Certainly. What's wrong with them having the information?
273193
I would start by reporting him to the NSA and then go to the FBI website and filling out a tip report on him. He is in a position that affects national security. Don't let him get away with this. God only knows what else he's done.
279644
Attn:CIA--sounds a bit fishy
1078476
Its a fine line between "information" and "need to know."  I think punishment might be warranted in this case because the data the government was snooping on is kept by private companies for marketing purposes anyway.  Now that al queda knows they can't move money around this way it hinders the governments ability to catch people bent on killing all of us.  I think they errored badly in this case; and should be punished.  However I reallly think the "leak" needs to be identified and imprisoned.  (even if its a Congressmen).  This kind of "leak" can cost people their lives.
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There's this little news story now,  it takes a large chunk of time on national news and print and tv,  remember its the thing about Bush authorizing the NSA to listen to cell phone calls.\n\nSo able danger ended with some admiral or general saying we were told not to pursue what we had cause some white house clinton lawyer told us not to go any farther,\nand now george bush's lawyer, the attorney general, is saying its legal for us to spy and take action\n\nkick @ss
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Of course.  That is what has made me laugh about this wire tapping NSA situation.  We have been watched since the government realized years and years ago they can't trust the american people. Every thing you do is recorded and stored somewhere.  We are being watched and we will always be watched.