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Judge eager to re-enter NSA surveillance fight

Posted by sdesapio 9 years, 2 months ago to Government
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From the article: "Warning that the constitutional rights of tens of millions of Americans are being violated, a federal judge said Wednesday that he's eager to expedite a lawsuit seeking to shut down the National Security Agency's controversial program to collect data on large volumes of U.S. telephone calls."
SOURCE URL: http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2015/09/judge-eager-to-re-enter-nsa-surveillance-fight-213272


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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 2 months ago
    My thought is that the real purpose of the NSA is to protect the government from its own citizens. Obviously it didnt stop 911 or countless cyber crimes, in spite of its great powers. Thank god for Snowden exposing what they are up to.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 9 years, 2 months ago
    How many 'Judges' have to do this before it gets done? Any Judge can rule anyway he wants but still nobody listens and the beat goes on unencumbered
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 2 months ago
    Looking at the bigger picture for a moment; How in the world did the NSA garner such power in the first place? I think that those in the NSA as well as every bureau, no longer understand in the least what freedom is and what it means. If this is the case and I suspect it is, there is no hope for justice in the USA in the long run.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 2 months ago
    Another thought. I doubt this country would have ever split from Britain's control and started as the USA if Britain had the powers the NSA has now. Would there have been ANY Jews left if HIlter had the NSA powers then?
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    • Posted by $ jdg 9 years, 2 months ago
      He certainly didn't have any Bill of Rights holding him back. What the Gestapo lacked was the technology to do the kind of surveillance they could today.

      The question then is how large the Nazi state could have made its security agencies without running into the law of diminishing returns (because some of those recruited would turn out to be, or become, double agents). Certainly, East Germany's Stasi was much larger (per capita), and it had a huge problem with double agents.
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