Hell, I might as well say it, I used to work for the NSA

[JDPriestly]

41. Voting rihgts and election transparency are meaningless as is a budget

if we have NSA snooping.

All of our rights and the free working of our governments, to say nothing of our own freedom depends on stopping the NSA secret snooping.

The best thing the BO administration can do is to give each individual the right to subpoena records of the NSA records on him or her. That would then permit each of us to decide whether the programs of the NSA are compatible with democracy. I predict that we all will decide that they are not, that they limit speech, that, as I said, they make our votes into shams.

Think of it. We go to the voting booth. Our votes are tracked and counted by computers. What is to prevent the NSA from knowing how, say voter # 2,084 (counting the numbers in order of voting) in her precinct in Los Angeles County voted?

Sound preposterous?

They can say they aren't doing that, but how can we know? They certainly have the electronic capacity to do that if our votes are counted electronically, and who knows whether they have the desire to do that? Clapper lied. There appear to be no repercussions against him for doing that.

I think we have to get rid of the excessive NSA snooping and get transparency about what is going on before we can get concerned about other issues.

This NSA snooping is the first order of business. It has to stop.

Otherwise a lot of people will reduce their use of the internet and telephone.