..."Last week, the NSA leaked that it captured actionable intelligence of grave and imminent danger to our embassies in the Middle East. The implication it wants you to draw here is that because it caught al-Qaida operatives talking in code in Yemen about deadly deeds they plan to perpetrate in the Arabian Peninsula, somehow the NSA's spying on 300 million innocent Americans is constitutional, lawful, effective and therefore worth the loss of freedom.
Earlier this week, we learned that other federal agencies of alphabet nomenclature -- the DHS, the DoJ, the DoD, the DEA, the CIA, the IRS, the FBI -- all want access to the NSA's database, and it has shared some of it with most of them. Also this week, former DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) agents, claiming this has been going on for at least a decade, acknowledged that the DEA regularly receives raw data from the NSA and uses that data to commence criminal investigations.
Blazer Bob wrote:
Down the slippery slope we go."...
I agree....we are giving up too much for the illusion of safety. But......events like Bengazi bring out the monday morning quarterbacks who say....we should have known.....intelligence should have been better....and on and on.....be careful what you ask for. Either we agree that to maintain our freedoms and our privacy we accept additional risk....or we follow each other down that slippery slope
