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In reply to the discussion: Don't entertain this garbage. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)it is chilling. If they are using' national security' as their excuse, they are using the same excuse all totalitarian governments have used throughout history.
There is no 'defining' spying. Either someone I don't know is tracking the phone calls I make or they are not. That is all the defining I need. That is all the defining I needed when Bush was caught doing it. They were spying on the American people using telephone companies to do it. It was illegal then, Congress moved like lightening to make the illegal, legal to protect Bush and the telecoms. Why? Because they knew it was illegal spying.
If it's hard for you to understand the very simple concept of government spying on your private activities, then there really isn't much anyone can say to help you understand.
Did you support it when Bush was caught doing the exact same thing btw?