2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Snowden Says Hillary Clinton’s BOGUS STATEMENTS Show a “Lack of Political Courage” [View all]uhnope
(6,419 posts)"The NSA/CIA have unlimited power" is simply not true. This belief is the result of taking in bad info, I suspect, or maybe even in believing that TV shows and movies give an accurate picture of reality. It's the problem of listening to globalresearch or consortiumnews or Alex Jones or other fake news sources. If I were you I'd be really angry that they had manipulated me into believing falsehoods, of being afraid when there was no rational reason to be.
There are clear and somewhat strong limits on both the NSA and CIA, especially domestically. I personally am not bothered by NSA metadata collection that is accessible by court order--and they recently limited that more, too: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/winning-surveillance-limits-obama-makes-program-own.html