NSA Staffer: Snowden Didn't Dupe Coworkers Out of Passwords

[JDPriestly]

154. What exactly is so personal about "this number called that number"?

I can't believe that anyone could ask that question.

The phone company cannot arrest me, and because the phone company is trying to make money, it is not going to spend its potential profits on trying to analyze where I go, with whom I meet, with whom I speak, to whom I write e-mails. what I post on DU, and if they did, they would just try to make more profit from the information.

The government is supposed to keep its nose out of the personal business of those who elect it.

The NSA is completely out of order on this excessive surveillance. As I have posted so many times, I lived in Europe, I knew and know survivors from WWII. Some of them I know very well. While I was living in Europe, I met people who were visiting or had escaped from Communist countries including one friend who had escaped from a country whose previous job had been to censor foreign news.

Why would the NSA want to have my phone records? For the same reason that the East German or Polish or Soviet governments wanted the phone records of their citizens -- to keep an eye on their communications, to know who talks to people in foreign countries and who doesn't. Well, that is no excuse for violating my Fourth Amendment rights. What is so dangerous about talking to people in foreign countries?

The number of terrorists in the US is not so large that the NSA would have to spend a lot of time getting court orders, subpoenas or warrants to obtain their records.

The collection of metadata is extremely dangerous. It is a violation of the Fourth Amendment when abused to the point that the NSA is abusing it. I strongly oppose it, and everyone would if they had the experiences in life that I have had.