Friday, June 7, 2013

The Government Has Been Collecting Info On Every Single U.S. Phone Call, NBC News Reports



◼ NBC Nightly News opened tonight with a report revealing just how expansive phone monitoring in the government is. - Josh Feldman/Mediaite

Ann Curry succinctly explained, “Every time you pick up a phone, the government has known who you were calling.” This is a revelation that comes within 24 hours of revelations the NSA was collecting data from U.S. Verizon users and that the government has been mining user data from a number of big websites for years.

Pete Williams caught viewers up to speed on the other big story about massive online data mining. He predicted earlier...that the initial report on Verizon user info would lead to a government leak investigation.

◼ Mark Levin On NSA Tracking: "We Have The Elements Of A Police State Here" - Real Clear Politics

◼ How the IRS scandal may damage PRISM and other anti-terror datamining - Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion

◼ Re-Thinking PRISM - Ace Of Spades

On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that if we abandon our advantage in the realm of computer processing power (and the incredible advantage we have in that most internet traffic, world-wide, circulates through the US), I think we're going to be down to our human capabilities which, once again, I think are virtually non-existent with regard to Al Qaeda. I think we'll be down to the felt.

I don't know. We need to know more, obviously.



◼ Coulter: Phone records not constitutionally protected, up to Congress to stop ‘corrupt administration’ - Jeff Poor/Daily Caller

◼ NSA WHISTLEBLOWER: THE GOVERNMENT IS STILL TELLING YOU AN ‘OUTRIGHT LIE’ ABOUT ITS SPYING PROGRAMS - Jason Howerton/The Blaze

DRUDGE:
THE INTERNET FROM HELL...
NSA, FBI secretly mining data from Internet firms...
'THEY QUITE LITERALLY CAN WATCH YOUR IDEAS AS YOU TYPE'...
MICROSOFTYAHOOGOOGLEYOUTUBEFACEBOOKSKYPEAPPLE...
Top-secret PRISM program...
Vast Data Trove...
Billions of Phone Calls...
PAPER: Obama agenda lost in firestorm...
New app claims to prevent government eavesdropping on cell phones...
EXPOSED: 'Massive apparatus in US Gov't building enormous structure with only one goal'...
...'to destroy privacy and anonymity, not just in the US, but around the world'...
Concern mounts in Congress...
NSA builds massive $2b facility in Utah to store people's data for mining...

SPEECHLESS: President at loss of words after staff fails to provide speech...
Calls concerns over spying 'hype'...
LECTURE: Says debate 'sign of maturity'...
TOP DEM OPERATIVE: Liberals, Democrats must stand up against Obama...
DEM TALKING POINT: IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!
Obama stays silent; leaves comment to deputy press secretary...
Civil-Liberties Record Questioned...
Leno: Heck With Big Brother -- 'With Obama We Actually Have a Brother Watching Us'...

◼ Obama: ‘All members of Congress’ briefed on NSA spying; Members of Congress: We were? - Twitchy

During President Obama’s remarks Friday morning about the NSA controversy, he said this:

Now, the programs that have been discussed over the last couple days in the press are secret in the sense that they’re classified, but they’re not secret in the sense that when it comes to telephone calls, every member of Congress has been briefed on this program.

“Every member of Congress has been briefed on this program.”



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