Below is a review of the responses to the NSA-Snowden Scandal.
Noteworthy points:
* Hysterical US responses to the Snowden's affair only highlight the extremity of US unlawful conduct, relative to the international community and ratified International Law.
* The betrayal of the US Constitution in the US Congress is bipartisan - in providing the Executive Branch a blank check under various post 9/11 national security related acts, and refusal to pass acts that restrict state agency surveillance.
* While protest groups such as Restore the Fourth are mentioned, nowhere are the courts mentioned as potential part of the remedy.
Combined, such conditions again demonstrate that the US Constitution is no longer effective in the United States, neither the rule of law.
jz
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Your Government Spies on You and Lies About It: Now What?
America's domestic spying juggernaut has expanded to an unbelievable extent.
August 8, 2013 |
Now that Americans know the federal government domestically spies and lies about it—thanks to a litany of “misstatements” by top officials that have been debunked followingdisclos
Americans keep hearing more news reports about the national security state’s growing reach. Reuters just broke the story of more police efforts to use data collected in the NSA’s domestic digital dragnet for FBI drug investigations. Meanwhile, the New York Times reports that other federal agencies are clamoring for the NSA’s data and are engaged in turf battles over it.
The parade of domestic spying stories has been met with a stream of official denials, which have been unmasked by the media as lies. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers saidthat the NSA didn’t read Americans' emails, but Snowden’s disclosure of the XKeyscore program—including the user manual showing that functionality—disproved that.
ProPublica.org put together this video montage debunking six more domestic spying lies: Is the NSA spying on Americans? (The NSA said no.) Does it only collect data from bad guys? (The NSA said mostly). Does the NSA keep data on citizens? (The NSA said no.) Is NSA data collection any different from a local grand jury? (The Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman said no.) Is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court transparent? (Obama said yes.) And what other lies did the NSA present to Congress in “fact sheets” prepared for oversight committees? (It won’t say.)
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