The NSA and FBI are tapping into the servers of nine U.S. Internet firms, extracting audio, video, photos, e-mails and documents that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time.
The NSA and FBI are tapping into the servers of nine U.S. Internet firms, extracting audio, video, photos, e-mails and documents that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time.
Surprising, and yet not surprising. James Bamford’s The Puzzle Palace, 1982, detailed NSA’s massive scanning of phone traffic. As our federal government has taken on more god-like responsibilities, it has felt compelled to attempt more god-like powers. If one undertakes to rid the world of evil, just as Christ came to destroy the works of the Devil, then one will feel compelled to seek unlimited knowledge, to correspond to God’s omniscience.
This was the top headline in the Fort Worth and Dallas papers this morning. Personally, I see this as another attack on the Bill of Rights by our government, which should scare us more than an attack by a foreign power.
This OK. The democrats are doing it, so there’s nothing wrong with it.