Thread: NSA is collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily, a secret order reveals

Tap, baby, tap? Hilarious: Dennis Miller shreds Obama over NSA surveillance as only he can
Posted at 11:58 am on June 9, 2013 by Twitchy Staff

Ha! Is “tap, baby, tap” the new “drill, baby, drill”?

Dennis Miller went on a Twitter roll and eviscerated President Obama over the NSA surveillance scandal. Read and giggle madly!

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I might as well say I find the Prez and the NSA creepy here on Twitter because it appears he'll know about it even if I say it in private.

8:45 AM - 7 Jun 2013

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It they're going to tap my phone, could they at least tap it for oil?

9:43 AM - 7 Jun 2013

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Out of political correctness, the next thing you'll hear is that the only phones not tapped in America are calls from here to the Mid-East.

9:07 AM - 7 Jun 2013

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Obama just announced he's replacing "Hail to the Chief" with "Every Breath You Take" by the Police...the band The Police, that is.

10:15 AM - 7 Jun 2013

http://twitchy.com/2013/06/09/tap-ba...s-only-he-can/

Obama dismisses ‘hype’ over surveillance, then lauds and criticizes program
12:58 PM 06/07/2013


The public furor over the government’s cellphone and Internet surveillance programs is “hype,” President Barack Obama said Friday.

“When you look a the details, I think we’ve struck the right balance,” he said during a press conference in California, during which he simultaneously tried to reassure the public, push responsibility for the program on other politicians, and suggest it could be rolled back.

“Nobody is listening to your telephone calls,” he said. “That’s not what this program is about… they are not looking at people names, and they are not looking at [Internet or phone] content,” he said.

He described the surveillance as a “modest encroachment on privacy.”

“You can’t have 100 percent security and 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience,” he said. “We’are going to have make some choices as a society, and what I can say is that [this program] makes a difference in … anticipating and preventing attacks.”

However, Obama also tried to distance himself from the program.

The surveillance program is supervised by Congress and the courts, he said repeatedly.

Obama said he’s not merely asking the public to “trust me, we’re doing the right thing, we know who the bad guys are.” Instead, he said, “we’ve got congressional oversight and judicial oversight.”

The program has also been approved by his deputies, Obama said. In 2009, “I came in with a healthy skepticism about some of these programs… my team evaluated them [and] my assessment and my teams’s assessment was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks.”

Even as he said the surveillance programs help prevent jihadi attacks, Obama also suggested that’s he’d like to roll back the surveillance. The country needs “to shift out of a perpetual war mindset,” he said. “I think it is healthy for our democracy… because five years ago, six years ago, we might not have been wiling to having the debate,” he claimed.


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/07/ob...#ixzz2Vk7QiIzS

More blowback from the catastrophic bush years - the ignored PDB prior to 9-11, WMD lies, neocon war profiteering, illegal Iraq war, Patriot Act, Guantanamo, extraordinary rendition, Abu Ghraib, water boarding, dismantling of our civil liberties, etc,etc. And quite predictably, in their sheer desperation for not having one single constructive idea, the wackobirds with depleted memories blame Obama for everything including their own bad breath.

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It's less blowback and more continuation. President Bush did us no favors, that's for sure, but President Obama seems bent on continuing many of the same programs that Bush started.

Gunrunning, Guantanamo, spying on US citizens...coupled with voracious secrecy. This is neither the change nor the transparency that I was hoping for.

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And right on cue... as if you needed a text book example of a typical apologist/water carrier/acolyte/sycophant/fawning zombie/blue dress-wearing, chin-wiping lib, look who shows up with the knee-jerk go-to response of "BOOOOOOOSH!!!: Useless Daze.

Well done, dear. Here's your gold star and some knee pads. Wear them proudly

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Say hi to the NSA guy reading this. "Hi, NSA guy!"

Wait, does it make me a misogynist to assume the NSA agent is male??

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The use of the IRS to harass and intimidate political opponents was attempted (unsuccessfully) by Nixon. It was not attempted by Bush (the 501c3 audits were bipartisan investigations of organizations reasonably accused of violating their "non-partisan" requirements), but was successfully accomplished by Clinton and (on a massive scale) Obama (who also used many other government agencies for that purpose).

"Blame Bush! (Squawk!) Blame Bush!" For what it's worth, the Washington Post reported that PRISM grew "exponentially" under Obama, who signed the renewal of the Patriot Act.

Sometimes it seems the only people the Obama administration doesn’t spy on ...
...are themselves
By Doug Powers • June 9, 2013 02:35 PM

The Obama administration is expected to open a criminal probe into the NSA leaks:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...95700K20130608

President Barack Obama’s administration is likely to open a criminal investigation into the leaking of highly classified documents that revealed the secret surveillance of Americans’ telephone and email traffic, U.S. officials said on Friday.

The law enforcement and security officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly, said the agencies that normally conduct such investigations, including the FBI and Justice Department, were expecting a probe into the leaks to a British and an American newspaper.

Based on how much trouble they seem to have locating alleged leakers in their midst, the Obama administration might want to put a moratorium on monitoring everybody else and focus on spying on themselves for a while. http://theweek.com/article/index/245...m-50-companies

Related story: Last week, President Obama claimed that “every member of Congress” had been briefed about NSA surveillance programs. http://twitchy.com/2013/06/07/obama-...ed-nsa-spying/

Just in case that wasn’t entirely true…

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Fox News learns the entire House to be briefed Tuesday on NSA surveillance programs http://foxrad.io/5mincast

12:05 AM - 9 Jun 2013

Update: The Guardian has identified their source. A 29 year old NSA contract employee?
http://twitchy.com/2013/06/09/guardi...edward-snowden


**Written by Doug Powers http://michellemalkin.com/2013/06/09...inistration-3/

Representative Clyburn (D - SC) says the NSA leaked the information about its own very expensive secret programs as a racist conspiracy.
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Now everything makes sense, sir. Thank you for clearing that up...

The NSA is Spying on You — Here is How You Should Fight Back
Rand Paul in Politics 8 hours ago

Benjamin Franklin famously wrote, “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” Meanwhile, our president claims that we cannot have 100% security and 100% privacy and that as a society we have to make some choices. To that I say, no Mr. President, we don’t.

Let’s look, for example, at the recent attacks in Boston. Our government was violating our rights, trolling through millions of phone records, sifting through mountains of data and yet still didn't notice, or didn’t notice enough, that one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was traveling to Chechnya. Perhaps instead of treating every American as a potential terror suspect, the government should concentrate on more targeted analysis and an analysis that doesn’t violate the Bill of Rights.

This assault on personal privacy affects the Facebook generation more than anyone else. Your generation is completely digitized and uploaded. Everything you do is traceable via phone, email and bank records. And it is you, more than anyone, who should be outraged by this astounding assault on your constitutional right to personal privacy.

I hear people say, "Well if you aren’t doing anything wrong, then the government will leave you alone." But over the last month and a half, this administration has proven that they will target anyone. Under this administration, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has targeted political dissidents, the Department of Justice has seized reporters' phone records, and now we've learned the NSA seized an unlimited amount of Verizon's client data. So, do you really expect us to trust a government that admittedly targets innocent citizens without probable cause? These overreaching acts are unacceptable under any president, whether Democrat or Republican.

This issue has made for some strange bedfellows in Washington. You have some of my fellow Republicans – I like to call moss-covered – defending Barack Obama’s violation of your rights. Meanwhile, I am being joined by Democratic Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), left–leaning journalist Glenn Greenwald, and Republican Congressman and author of the PATRIOT Act, Jim Sensebrenner (R-Wisc.).

It is clear that this issue is not about party politics. It is about protecting the civil liberties that our Founding Fathers fought a revolution for. And issues such as this really show you how your political leaders feel about your rights.

What should frustrate you the most is the hypocrisy of it all. In December 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama threatened to filibuster the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). He now uses FISA courts to survey your personal information.

Then-Senator Obama opposed provisions granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that shared private client information with the government. Senator Obama was right. Had I been in the Senate, I would have voted with him. Senator Obama in 2008 also wanted to track potential terrorist activity "without undermining our commitment to the rule of law, or our basic rights and liberties.” Yet, today, President Obama undermines the rule of law, basic rights and core liberties — all in the name of tracking terrorists.

Last week, I introduced the Fourth Amendment Restoration Act of 2013. The purpose of the bill is in its name — to restore what has been taken from us — our right to personal privacy.

Over the last 30 or 40 years, our government has decided that once we give our records to our bank or our credit card company, that they're no longer private. I disagree vehemently with that. In today’s world, so much of our life is digitalized, and we must maintain a sense of privacy from an overreaching government.

I do not think this is what Verizon customers had in mind when they signed up for the “share everything plan” and I want these customers to join me in filing a class-action lawsuit against the NSA. I’m asking all of the internet providers, all of the phone companies and their customers to join me in protecting our rights to privacy. Our Constitution is consistently ignored and it is time we take a stand. I encourage all Americans, especially the millennials, to stand with me in this fight to protect our constitutional right to privacy.

http://www.policymic.com/articles/48...uld-fight-back

I want to know how HE has the ability to "hide" when no one else in this country is able to hide from his "intelligence". What is so alarming about the Snowden... revelations is that NOT EVEN CONGRESS knew what Snowden knew, and NO ONE elected Snowden.

We have an "elected" fraud, and Congress doesn't know much about this fraud hiding in plain sight?

Illegals are somehow afforded "privacy" apparently as we are constantly told we cannot "find them" and that somehow they are "behind the veil" and "amnesty" will "bring them into the daylight"?

Sounds like a lot of double-speak to me!

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