Many Of You May Be Interested In What THIS Guy Has To Say, Re: FISA/NSA/Snowden...

[JDPriestly]

157. But there is no harm in pointing out the flaws in the reasoning of the Supreme Court

and the inapplicability of past decisions to present facts.

How can it be reasonably OK for the government to collect ALL the metadata from most of the phone companies in the US? That's metadata on American citizens. It makes no sense.

What percentage of us are believed to be involved in terrorism. Can't be very high. Could be less than a half a percent, probably considerably less than that.

Drugs? That's a different matter. But if this metadata is being used for drug investigations of individuals, the government still might need a warrant given the broad range of data they can get from it today. And as I understand it, the metadata is collected under laws applying to the gathering of foreign intelligence data, not to local drug enforcement.

The FISA court order pertaining to Verizon that I saw was far, far too broad. The government is collecting records on all calls and internet traffic on Verizon phones if that order is typical. That is simply far too broad. It implicates the rights of journalists, of doctors, of scientists, of teachers, of ordinary people and most important of politically active people, union organizers, religious organizers of all faiths. It is just a horror story in the making.

It is unacceptable. Obama is not the problem. This program is a huge problem.