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East Coast Pirate

(775 posts) Wed Jul 17, 2013, 05:34 PM Jul 2013

Obama Admin. could build databases of credit card transactions, hotel records and Internet searches [View all]

NSA spying under fire: 'You've got a problem'

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a heated confrontation over domestic spying, members of Congress said Wednesday they never intended to allow the National Security Agency to build a database of every phone call in America. And they threatened to curtail the government's surveillance authority.

Top Obama administration officials countered that the once-secret program was legal and necessary to keep America safe. And they left open the possibility that they could build similar databases of people's credit card transactions, hotel records and Internet searches.

The clash on Capitol Hill undercut President Barack Obama's assurances that Congress had fully understood the dramatic expansion of government power it authorized repeatedly over the past decade.

The House Judiciary Committee hearing also represented perhaps the most public, substantive congressional debate on surveillance powers since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Previous debates have been largely theoretical and legalistic, with officials in the Bush and Obama administrations keeping the details hidden behind the cloak of classified information.

More: http://news.yahoo.com/nsa-spying-under-fire-youve-got-problem-164530431.html

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Obama Admin. could build databases of credit card transactions, hotel records and Internet searches [View all] East Coast Pirate Jul 2013 OP

OMG No private corporations would ever do that! leftstreet Jul 2013 #1

..... daleanime Jul 2013 #3

Yes those exist. East Coast Pirate Jul 2013 #6

Why is government spookier than a corporation? leftstreet Jul 2013 #8

Because a corporation can't put you in prison. East Coast Pirate Jul 2013 #12

all of it sucks. ALL OF IT. Between kissing GHW Bush's ass and this, I am way the roguevalley Jul 2013 #35

LOL like they don't already exist Skittles Jul 2013 #2

Congress actually did something? Rex Jul 2013 #4

They also do fundraisers! KittyWampus Jul 2013 #17

Finally. Some debate on this. k&r for exposure. n/t Laelth Jul 2013 #5

This debate is over. They are already doing it. THey track you every way you turn around. For Pisces Jul 2013 #7

Ted Kaczynski hid for quite a while. PADemD Jul 2013 #31

He sure did, living in the woods. Pisces Jul 2013 #34

The Rethugs are lying. They were fully on board in the Bush years. pnwmom Jul 2013 #9

They're sickening. So let's take their tools away from them before they get into office... allin99 Jul 2013 #13

I think we should roll a lot of this back. pnwmom Jul 2013 #14

Exactly, roll it back, and keep doing it. Now's a perfect time ... allin99 Jul 2013 #19

You leave out that many of our Dems we Voted for are Liars TOO! KoKo Jul 2013 #18

"You're trying to confuse us by talking use." - Jerrold Nadler Catherina Jul 2013 #10

Guess what - you, and I, and everyone else here has already been profiled. You have a TIQ. leveymg Jul 2013 #11

omg. bunnies Jul 2013 #15

Duzy! PADemD Jul 2013 #32

Whatever a TIQ babylonsister Jul 2013 #16

"Are You a Potential Terrorist?" Associated Press, 05.20.04 leveymg Jul 2013 #25

This message was self-deleted by its author KoKo Jul 2013 #20

Smiling cattle being lead down the chute to the little air hammer 1-Old-Man Jul 2013 #21

ooh good post elehhhhna Jul 2013 #22

plus the ssa and state employment databases elehhhhna Jul 2013 #23

I'm going to start paying in cash just to piss off the NSA. Apophis Jul 2013 #24

Any DU'ers trying to find a Job posting on "Linkedin Website" You are Target KoKo Jul 2013 #26

"Could" as in ohheckyeah Jul 2013 #27

Yes. Whatever they admit to, times that by 100 99th_Monkey Jul 2013 #29

Time 100 at the least. n/t ohheckyeah Jul 2013 #30

K & R ~nt 99th_Monkey Jul 2013 #28

If a toad could fly,,,,, Cryptoad Jul 2013 #33