Obama Is Giving Up Some Executive Power, and He’ll Still Get No Credit

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113. I made the argument above, where you got the link.

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This speech was basically about how he wants to change the character of the WOT from military wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to dismantling Radical Islamic terrorists everywhere. The argument for mass collection is you need it ALL to sift through looking for the needle in the haystack.

He speaks of how we need to be able to monitor new technologies and acknowledges we need more oversight BECAUSE HE WANTS MORE DATA which has more potential for abuse and screams "unconstitutional" to me. They are looking for domestic as well as international threats and frankly they can't screen domestic data out so it's all or nothing.

Read the entire piece again and tell me why I am wrong. There is nothing in the piece about winding down the war on terror. He just wants to conduct it differently and I contend that difference is based on having EVERYTHING so it can all be analyzed.

We've seen the mission creep where Reuters reported data that is shared by the NSA is already being used to identify and locate drug perps. That may not be Obama's intended consequence but we already know its happening. And because its classified, the odds that any violations will be discovered are slim and in any case can't be spoken of in public.