Wednesday, October 23, 2013

And it was all justified and perfectly legal

Free Beacon (Gertz):

NSA Spied on 124 Billion Phone Calls in One Month

Tallies of top-secret documents show widespread data collection
The National Security Administration recorded information about more than 124 billion phone calls during a 30-day period earlier this year, including around 3 billion calls from U.S. sources, according to a tally from top-secret documents released by multiple news outlets.
Documents revealing details about the NSA’s Boundless Informant program show that information regarding billions of phone calls and computer communications was collected by the agency from across the world.
Boundless Informant “allows users to select a country on a map and view the meta data volume and select details about the collections against that country,” according to the Guardian, which first reported on the top secret program earlier this year.
Multiple leaked screenshots of the Boundless Informant program show that information on around 124.8 billion phone calls were collected in just 30-days this year, according to documents released by the Guardian and other news sites.
Where do we even start?
By Party?
By Right/Left?
By Executive Branch?
The Supreme Court?
Do we worry about the economy first?
Defense budget?
The ridiculous Jerry Lewis comedy that Obamacare has become?
Seriously.
What shall the first effort be?

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