The personality rabbit hole.

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74. "Nonsense" I don't think so...

yes we have the official denials, which is what you are buying, however I go with these statements:

Forget Snowden--let's investigate our own practices and get some information out that is Truth (like Australia and other governments are doing)--for a change. Because we are being lied to. Good grief
can't you smell a cover-up?
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Senator Mark Udall (D-CO)

June 9 "I don't think the American public knows the extent or knew the extent to which they were being surveilled and their data was being collected." "I think we ought to reopen the Patriot Act and put some limits on the amount of data that the National Security (Agency) is collecting," "It ought to remain sacred, and there's got to be a balance here. That is what I'm aiming for. Let's have the debate, let's be transparent, let's open this up".[47]

Representative Todd Rokita (R-IN)

June 10 "We have no idea when they [ FISA ] meet, we have no idea what their judgments are",[54]

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)

June 6 "When the Senate rushed through a last-minute extension of the FISA Amendments Act late last year, I insisted on a vote on my amendment (SA 3436) to require stronger protections on business records and prohibiting the kind of data-mining this case has revealed. Just last month, I introduced S.1037, the Fourth Amendment Preservation and Protection Act,"[55]
June 9 "I'm going to be seeing if I can challenge this at the Supreme Court level. I'm going to be asking the Internet providers and all of the phone companies: ask your customers to join me in a class-action lawsuit."[46]

Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL)

June 9 "We will be receiving secret briefings and we will be asking, I know I'm going to be asking to get more information. I want to make sure that what they're doing is harvesting information that is necessary to keep us safe and not simply going into everybody's private telephone conversations and Facebook and communications. I mean one of the, you know the terrorists win when you debilitate freedom of expression and privacy."[53]
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