i was reading my regular rss feeds n came across this article. It is an interesting read and at the end will be my take on this.
Courtesy of Citizens for Legitimate Government:
The NSA is doing continuous intercepts of phone calls and personal email of all Americans, not to mention foreigners. In a manner that hasn’t been stated, someone momentarily roused Congress from its slumbers and it became irritated because it discovered the NSA’s spying is much worse than they initially disclosed.
Are we surprised?
The only surprise here is that Congress is surprised by this. The NSA and related agencies have been reading our emails and listening to our telephone calls for years. Only after 9-11 did these agencies find an official excuse to admit they were eavesdropping. And now Congress, agitated because their nap was interrupted, is mad because the NSA is spying more than they said they were at first.
Is your head spinning yet?
“It’s OK to steal, but you’re stealing a lot more than you said you were. No fair!”
The NSA’s little bundle of joy is called Pinwale and is a database confirmed to be running today.
Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ), chairman of the House Select Intelligence Oversight Panel, is troubled by the NSA’s handling of domestic communications.
Good for Rush: he’s troubled. Notice that the emphasis is on handling of domestic communications. Notice that this is only after someone roused Congress. Does the phrase `too little too late’ mean anything? Apparently not to Rush.
To make this travesty even more absurd, the Justice Department and national security officials have excused this heinous violation of privacy and liberty by stating that the overcollection was inadvertent.
“We meant to deprive you of privacy but we slipped and deprived you of more privacy than we thought. Awful sorry.”
Mind you, part of this debacle is the result of Congress allowing even more spying in legislation last year. (it’s for the children) So once again we have Congress making legislation on topics it cannot possibly understand. Then we have the president (Bush in this case) and his bosses telling Congress they have to put all sorts of unconstitutional legislation through. They dutifully bend over, possibly thankful that anybody noticed them in the first place.
This investigation is merely an attempt by Congress to cover its ample bottom.
The NSA had no comment.
Go ahead; make tin-foil hat jokes NOW!
End of article.
Those are the activities of the US’es NSA. They are doing their job and i must ask here, why wuld anyone be afraid if he/she was not doing anything wrong or illegal. But when i put my self in the writer’s shoes and imagined if over here, they too had activities of the same sort, how wuld i feel ? Well, i can safely say tat i hav not committed any acts that may be construed as violating any law, be it major or minor, so am not worried. BUT still, I wuld rather not have anyone looking over my shoulders, policing every breath and step I take. So, I let them do their job whilst i go ahead with my life, not worried a bit coz got nothing to hide. And that is the truth.
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