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People don't realize that the NSA has the power to engage in surveillance of our email and telephone communications without any kind of notice. You're never going to get a search warrant or an after-the-fact notice that your communications have been intercepted. I think people would be really shocked if they understood the dragnet nature of the surveillance. This shroud of secrecy has been thrown over basic government operations, denying people basic information they are entitled to. As we know less and less about our government, they know more and more about...
...points the Sept. 11 Commission made was that excessive secrecy actually undermined national security because it was hard to get information out. With congressional oversight and judicial review you can channel the government's resources more effectively. National security experts say that the whole premise of NSA domestic spying and data-mining is junk science. It's the worst of both worlds: the government is being bogged down listening to communications between innocent people, and they're not channeling resources toward those who really act in a suspicious manner. Law enforcement and security experts criticize demographic profiling for the same...
...annals of U.S. espionage, there are few groups more secretive than the National Security Agency (NSA), the covert Defense Department organization that illegally tapped the phones of U.S. citizens in the frenzied, fearful wake of Sept. 11, 2001. In his third book on the agency, Bamford, a former Navy analyst, catalogs the humiliating blunders that allowed the hijackers into the country and the subsequent failure to locate them--despite the fact that at one point, they were listed in the phone book. The 9/11 attacks, he argues, put enormous pressure on the NSA to "turn its massive ears inward." Armed...
Faulk, David Murfee and Adrienne Kinne •whistle blown on NSA eavesdropping on phone sex calls...
...Democrats. The G.O.P. candidates all claimed to defend taxpayers, but Paul was the only one who refused to accept a taxpayer-funded pension or taxpayer-funded junkets. The candidates all talked about shrinking big government, but Paul was the only one who included the Pentagon and NSA wiretaps and petroleum subsidies in his definition. Bush's approval ratings have been abysmal for years, but Paul was the only Republican who really campaigned for change...