Conyers, Nadler, and Scott: NSA-Phone Tracking is Overbroad; Call for Immediate Hearings

[Catherina]

35. You nailed it, This is personal, very personal

and the more you read about it, the more you research it, the worse it gets. When Loretta Sanchez said this was only the tip of the iceberg, that should have gotten people's attention.

When the NSA director who designed and ran the system, resigned a 30-year career to blow the whistle, that should have gotten people's attention. It should at least now.

When the NSA director who ran the World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group tells you they reach into your computer, exploiting vulnerabilities (that other tech information says Microsoft gave them) and can take anything they want out of your computer, using your own CPU to transmit whatever they want back to the NSA databases, that should get people's attention.

When he states that, at his time, there were 11 intercept centers in the US, for domestic surveillance, and that the ATT center on Folsom in San Francisco was indeed one of them, that should get people's attention. Most of the things I mentioned, in case anyone is curious, are in this thread.

Instead, it's all spin because "our guy" is involved.

I want to live in a world where bad guys are prosecuted and the public is protected. "I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things … I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under."