NSA spying revelations grow

[60Shock]

Kung Wu, if they are reading your shockernet postings, I guarantee you they are in for a lot of laughs.

Although, NSA types are certainly not well known for undertanding or recognizing humor or subtlety.

[Kung Wu]

I don't know if I should check my sarcasm meter or if you really believe that.

about the sucking to be Israel part?

Yes.

Yeah, I guess I am still believing that:

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/united-state-israel-foreign-relations-iran-nuclear-program-100107.html?hp=t1_3

[Kung Wu]

I don't know if I should check my sarcasm meter or if you really believe that.

Obama is to Isreal as Elgin is to Wichita State.

[1979Shocker]

Federal judge says NSA program appears to violate Constitution

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/16/21925625-federal-judge-says-nsa-program-appears-to-violate-constitution?lite

A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency’s gathering of data on all telephone calls made in the United States appears to violate the Constitution’s protection against unreasonable searches.

The judge, Richard Leon of U.S. District Court in Washington, said that the NSA relied on “almost-Orwellian technology” that would have been unimaginable a generation ago, at the time of a landmark Supreme Court decision on phone records.

Leon, an appointee of President George W. Bush, ruled in favor of two Americans who challenged the NSA program and wanted their data removed from NSA records. The judge found that the two were likely to prevail under the Fourth Amendment, the Constitution’s protection against unreasonable search and seizure.

[Kung Wu]

Well, there's a judge about to get audited by the I.R.S.

[wu_shizzle]

I usually laugh at conspiracy theories, but Chief Justice John Roberts was originally against Obamacare. The would-be majority opinion was written and would have been inline with his other opinions.

For some reason, he does a 180, and joins with the liberals, basically creating a loophole (it's a tax) to justify his ruling.

Knowing what we know now about the administration and their access to private information, what do you think they had on him to change his mind?

Is this what other political figures have to look forward to? An executive branch trading on "inside" information?

[1979Shocker]

Judge: NSA phone surveillance is legal

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57616313-83/judge-nsa-phone-surveillance-is-legal-and-a-vital-tool/?tag=nl.e703&s_cid=e703&ttag=e703&ftag=CAD090e536

A US district judge on Friday dismissed the American Civil Liberties Union's lawsuit against the government's top spy agency, ruling that bulk collection of telephony metadata by the NSA is lawful.

In June, the ACLU filed suit to challenge the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's mass collection of phone records, arguing that the practice violates Americans' First and Fourth Amendment rights. The ACLU sought a preliminary injunction to stop the government's phone-surveillance program and to have all of the collected data deleted.

In his ruling Friday in ACLU vs. James R. Clapper, US District Judge William Pauley cited the NSA's inability to connect the telephone dots ahead of the September 11th terrorist attacks. "[Al-Qaeda's plot] succeeded because conventional intelligence gathering could not detect diffuse filaments connecting al-Qaeda," he wrote.

[Kung Wu]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-576...tag=CAD090e536

Conventional intelligence failed once, therefore Americans have no right to privacy. Makes sense. Yup. Al-Qaeda won all right.

[_kai_]

Sickening.

[Kung Wu]

Well when a half-muslim communist gets elected as president it doesn't work out too well for them or us. Sucks to be Israel, no?

I don't know if I should check my sarcasm meter or if you really believe that.

about the sucking to be Israel part?

Another Obamacaresque disaster. If I were Israel I'd not only be concerned, I'd be outright pissed.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAN_US_NAVY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-02-08-10-14-18

Obama is to the U.S. Presidents as Grambling State is to college basketball.

There is more.

[Kung Wu]

Ugh I hope our resident NSA @Rlh04d is safe and sound! http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...f89_story.html

[Rlh04d]

I survived!