Facebook to Google Say NSA Spying Bill is Unacceptable

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25. The 2 part series will acquire historical significance.

Frontline is the new 60 Minures. I watched part one when it came on TV, but I didn't catch all of it. So last night I watched that episode in its entirety. Tonight I will finish up on part two.

The thing is, and the most important thing I got from part one, is we can't believe anything they say because they repeatedly lied. This applies to both the Bush and the Obama Administrations including and especially the Presidents themselves.

They are collecting all data they can, foreign and domestic. This includes your phone calls and emails. They are parsing words in attempts to convey an impression that this so-called metadata is not actual data. I guess they say if they collect it but don't look at it right then, that means they haven't collected it or something. Such is the way of pretzel logic - it doesn't make sense when it is being fed to you.

This goes all the way back to Total Information Awareness. Nobody destroyed those programs as Congress intended, they just showed up in different agencies under different names. Well, here they are.

I hope I don't end up screaming at the monitor tonight like I did last night while watching part one.

Peace, JD. It's still a good idea.