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In reply to the discussion: Obama Defends Surveillance Programs as Legal and Limited [View all]Psephos
(8,032 posts)48. A "warrant" issued by a secret court with no public record or knowledge.
That's called a "Star Chamber."
And you're dead wrong on your belief that the records are merely reserved for possible future use.
Read the WaPo article. They can pick and choose what they want in real time. The "warrant" pertains to a "facility" (which now means an entire server's contents), not a person. In other words, tens of millions of people with one "warrant." And no one ever knows about it.
It they want, they can read what you type as you type it. And they do.
Why on Earth would anyone who values Constitutional guarantees of liberty and privacy provide cover for this criminality?
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Could you maybe address the substance and lay off about the tone and word choice?
FiveGoodMen
Jun 2013
#43
Well, don't worry, with people like you the tea party will win the next election and you won't have
okaawhatever
Jun 2013
#22
Totalitarian is not STORING phone records (not even with names, just numbers) to be used IF a warran
okaawhatever
Jun 2013
#30
He said in the press conference it was a debate that should have happen long ago, and it is good it
still_one
Jun 2013
#7
now congress can't step up and blame the O, when it is now known the Rs voted for all of this.
Sunlei
Jun 2013
#21
Framed the program as a "balance" - Not wiretapping conversations, emails w/out probable cause and
pinto
Jun 2013
#24
It's not 'his' program (please read everything) and yes I think President O is an honest man.
Sunlei
Jun 2013
#41
Meaningless words. There is no "discussion" when NSA is doing exactly what Obama wants it to do and
MotherPetrie
Jun 2013
#35