Per KOA & Fox News: Snowden is being offered amnesty to come home. Think the former contractor will get away with his crimes? And still has more info to reveal?
Would you take the deal to come home? I would be awful tempted. I don't think life in Russia would be that secure.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency program which collects information on nearly all telephone calls made to, from or within the United States is likely unconstitutional.
Acting on a lawsuit brought by conservative legal activist Larry Klayman, Leon issued a preliminary injunction barring the NSA from collecting so-called metadata pertaining to the Verizon accounts of Klayman and one of his clients. However, the judge stayed the order to allow for an appeal.
“I cannot imagine a more ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘arbitrary invasion’ than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying it and analyzing it without judicial approval,” wrote Leon, an appointee of President George W. Bush.
The preliminary injunction Leon granted Monday does not require him to make a definitive ruling on the constitutional questions in the case, but does take account of which side he believes is more likely to prevail.
In light of this is Snowden now a hero or still a traitor? This will probably go to the SC. If I was Snowden I would stay put until a SC ruling. If the SC rules against the NSA, would Snowden then be a whistle blower and not a traitor.
Joke from the Mandela funeral: Obama was happy to talk with all these other foreign leaders. He had only heard them before on NSA wiretaps. The Danish PM offered to send President Obama a copy of the selfie but he said the NSA already had it framed in the Oval Office from her phone.
That would be a game changer if the NSA loses the ability to spy on Americans.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
FredHayek wrote: Joke from the Mandela funeral: Obama was happy to talk with all these other foreign leaders. He had only heard them before on NSA wiretaps. The Danish PM offered to send President Obama a copy of the selfie but he said the NSA already had it framed in the Oval Office from her phone.
That would be a game changer if the NSA loses the ability to spy on Americans.
The NSA will not stop spying, on Americans or anyone else. They are fixing to open (or just opened) a new data center in Utah which will have the storage and computing capabilities of running cross checks on phone, GPS, location, IP and so on, million of transactions a day.
You think they are just going to walk away from that?
