- True: NSA, FISA, and the Patriot Act are all designed to allow the Prez to spy on people, both citizen and foreigners, both domestically and internationally, but only as part of an effort to catch the “bad guys”.
- True: The current occupant of the West Wing is currently conducting a wide, old-fashion dragnet. They are indiscriminately collecting personal information on all citizens, including you and me. Cell phone calls, credit card transactions, textings, what websites you visit, and emails are all considered to be fair game.
- False: the former does not justify the latter. Sadly, the NSA, like the IRS, is under the absolute control of the executive branch. Therefore, we know only what has been voluntarily revealed or internal media leaks. We do know that all Verizon customers have been spied on by NSA, but we do not the full scope of the spying or how many other carriers or webstores or cloud services or whatever, nor are we ever likely to find out.
- True: I am more than 5 decades in age, and this is the most dangerous threat to our freedom and liberty I have ever experienced. I guess the "black helicopter crowd" and the guys with tin foil hats were correct after all.
King of the Yottabytes
OK, just how much info has the NSA
accumulated on us citizens? They have a data center whose storage
capacity can be measured in Yottabytes (go ahead, Google it. I dare
you. I double dare you).
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