Edward Snowden Going To Ecuador To Seek Asylum: WikiLeaks

Those records are not being outsourced by the government, but by the private sector.

Now that you brought it up, that kind of practice seems like something we should lobby to outlaw, considering how many hackers and identity thieves are foreign.

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Finally.  Got your attention.

I, and many others, have been warning against this for years.  Much of our government's services have been privatized and outsourced, at higher rates than when the government was performing the jobs, with less accountability.
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Edward Snowden Going To Ecuador To Seek Asylum: WikiLeaks

And we've got a president who keeps his interpretation of the law secret.

This is as insane as it gets.
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It's NOT legal, ferchrissakes.  

And what should really help you see that is both the DNI director and the NSA director LIED to the oversight committees!
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Edward Snowden, along with others who have access to what the NSA is actually up to, are telling you that our government is not only lying to us, and has been lying to us and those in Congress who are required to oversee the NSA, the NSA and the Obama administration is breaking the law!  Both domestic and international law, and they've been doing it all secretly.

We have spent our national treasure, many times over, allegedly in an effort to protect American citizens from the effect that our policies have had on people in other countries.  Not the actual policies that the American people believe we have, but the real policies of the U.S. government.  Policies that aren't for the benefit of the American people, the 99%, but policies that benefit the 1% and ROB the 99%.  Policies that support an oil-based economy, and a corporate food system, to the detriment of Americans' health and the destruction of the environment.  

Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot.  
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Only someone who is paying absolutely NO ATTENTION to the content of Snowden's message, but instead, because she doesn't seem to understand what's wrong with the NSA spying on all Americans, reduces it down to terms that are easy for her to understand ("us" versus "them") would want to consider that at all.

Whatever Snowden's agenda, it wouldn't mean what Obama and the NSA is doing is ok.
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RussellTice offers additional, startling details on NSA's warrantless eavesdropping on American citizens...

As we've been predicting for some weeks ago, the flood of revelations that would be flowing forth after Obama was sworn in would likely make what we currently know about Bush Era illegalities and incompetence seem like barely the tip of the iceberg.

Just one day after the Inauguration, RussellTice, the NSA whistleblower who originally participated in that agency's illegal warrantless wiretapping program, and revealed details of same to the NewYorkTimes' back in late 2005, has now come forward with more details that he'd been disinclined to release previously (he had been, after all, hounded by the FBI, subpoenaed by a grand jury, etc. after his original, heroic revelations.)

He spoke yesterday on MSNBC, revealing that American journalists were targeted by Bush's program which "had access to all Americans' communications." Please watch the remarkable video interview at right. Both that, and the text below, is from RAW STORY's coverage last night...

"The NationalSecurityAgency had access to all Americans' communications --- faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications," Tice claimed. "It didn't matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications."

"In one of the operations that I was in, we looked at organizations, just supposedly so that we would not target them," Tice told Olbermann. "What I was finding out, though, is that the collection on those organizations was 24/7 and 365 days a year --- and it made no sense. ... I started to investigate that. That's about the time when they came after me to fire me."

When Olbermann pressed him for specifics, Tice offered, "An organization that was collected on were US news organizations and reporters and journalists."


"To what purpose?" Olbermann asked. "I mean, is there a file somewhere full of every email sent by all the reporters at the NewYorkTimes? Is there a recording somewhere of every conversation I had with my little nephew in upstate New York?"

Tice didn't answer directly, but simply stated, "If it was involved in this specific avenue of collection, it would be everything."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html?_r=1

http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-bombshell-nsa-revelations-from-russell-tice/

http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=108

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/foreign-policy/war-terror/ex-intelligence-agent-russell-tice-says-us-not-telling-truth
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#1 - A majority of Americans did NOT accept a limitation of their freedoms.  Most Americans AND members of Congress were like mushrooms (kept in the dark and fed BS) in order to get the Patriot Act, a document written years earlier, passed.  Few Americans and members of Congress know that even today.  The Patriot Act was never to be permanent, yet the way it's been kept in perpetuity is the same way the neocons and neolibs have kept the war on terror going, i.e., through subterfuge and well-timed propaganda campaigns.  

#2 - Nowhere in a president's job title is "keeping his people safe" - I assume you mean the American people, but then again I take nothing for granted and assume you might also have meant the gang that has taken over control of the government.  "Swearing to protect and defend the Constitution", yes, that is in his job description.
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