Isn't it amusing to watch people who have called Obama-supporters 'worshippers'

[MADem]

181. How is your right to form associations being abrogated?

No one is telling you to not call anyone, and that data IS being collected by your phone provider even if NSA wasn't in the picture. It's how they roll.

You can't find a needle in a haystack without a haystack. The information is already there, the only difference is that these providers, instead of having their lives and workplaces disrupted when a request is made for information, put a copy of their shit off to the side so that NSA can access it with a warrant.

How much does Snowden even know? He spent less than four weeks--weeks, mind you--working at BHA. He showed up, started stealing shit, was told by personnel that there was a "problem" with his clearance, and he ran off to China.

I don't believe he could get into everyone's data, least of all the President's--on that score, I think he was talking himself up, sort of like he did in those chat rooms where he boasted about what a smart "stock shorter" he was, and his great life in Switzerland with the prostitutes.

I think I'd be inclined to take him more seriously if he were testifying before one of the Congressional Intel committees.