Star Member marmar (62,874 posts)
White House Sees 'No Alternative' to NSA's 'Collect It All' Approach
Published on Tuesday, November 5, 2013 by Common Dreams
Obama White House Sees 'No Alternative' to NSA's 'Collect It All' Approach
Bulk collection of 'metadata' to continue if NSA "needle in a haystack" argument continues to receive support from Obama administration
- Jon Queally, staff writer
Unfortunately for those concerned about the bulk collection of private communications by the government, the Obama administration just doesn't see another way conducting its spy business.
When it came to the question of neoliberal capitalism it was former British PM Margaret Thatcher who famously declared, "There is no alternative."
Now—in the face of growing concern and criticism over the global dragnet surveillance programs run by the NSA and other U.S. intelligence agencies determined to "collect it all"—it is the Obama White House saying, in effect, the same thing.
As the New York Times reports Tuesday, after six months of one revelation after another regarding the far-reaching nature of the nation's spy apparatus, "President Obama and his top advisers have concluded that there is no workable alternative to the bulk collection of huge quantities of 'metadata,' including records of all telephone calls made inside the United States." .....................(more)
Of course, they'll deny that 0bungles KNEW about this... woo me with science (22,967 posts)
1. Mr. Constitutional Law Professor, my ass.
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This mass spying is the shredding of our Constitution. This is corporate fascism, pure and simple.
The United States of America is now a surveillance state.
Under Barack Hussein 0chuckles it is, you mean.
Star Member last1standing (10,249 posts)
6. If this article is accurate, Obama will be a failed president.
Regardless of what good has done, or will do, he will be viewed by history as a failure for his lack of willingness to stand up to a basic threat to our Constitution.
I know the Screamers will be invading this thread soon with their cries of "it's only metadata" and "everyone does it" but they will be wrong.
It is not possible to protect our freedoms by stealing our freedoms.
Yet 0bongo had NO IDEA they were spying on Merkel, et al....
The usual coterie or apologists chimes in, although ProSense seems to be slacking off in her slavish duties. Or maybe she's performing another slavish duty right now...
