List Of Americans Who Have Been Individually Spied On Will Soon Be Released "biggest disclosure yet"

[Leopolds Ghost]

99. Besides which, you are asserting that metadata is 4th-amendment proof just because of current court

Which places it in a separate category of mail envelope headers (which it is a federal crime to snoop on, BTW) instead of library card records (which is what the ACTUAL nature of your metadata is, since it contains almost as much info about you as your actual post, and far more than is accessible to the public.) This is due to BAD court decisions.

The current SCOTUS will doubtless rule that all blanket surveillance does not violate the 4th amendment.

The ex-NSA apologist I mentioned above in this thread ALSO told me that blanket surveillance, not JUST metadata (if we did it but he thinks we don't) but that there is NO right to privacy given by the 4th amendment. He and another friend (current industry worker) vehemently argued this. They say the courts will back them up on this.

I'm sure they're right, but that's because we have a Dred Scott Supreme Court.

So the NSA position is that there is no constitutional right to privacy and no law against domestic universal electronic surveillance because the info is already "out there"... only the prohibition that the NSA be the one to track individuals domestically.

That's why they simply collect the info and give it all access to the FBI, DHS and the 5 allied intelligence agencies unredacted.