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No one could have predicted!

This is of great and pressing importance. It is one thing which is missing in TP since ObaOba took office…

Shame: The ‘Anti-War’ Democrats Who Sold Out

ALTERNET

It is time to realy think of progress…

Reportedly, he’d read the blacked-out redacted copies, but wanted to know the identity of the American citizens (including some elected officials apparently) whose conversations/messages had been captured by the NSA.

Typical totalitarian tactics: keep everyone else under surveillance, while blocking access to and/or destroying any internal communications/records within the regime.

Hmmmm, I wonder where denying public access to White House visitor logs falls in the totalitarian scheme of things?

We know the corrupt, totalitarian-minded Bush administration vehemently blocked the release of White House visitor logs (ala Cheney’s secretive Energy Task Force), but we now see the Obama administration carrying on this Bush administration tradition…though hopefully shortlived.

Just like the corrupt Bush administration, what is the Obama administration trying to hide?

Since Obama was inaugurated, I’ve been wondering when his administration was going to release the White House visitor logs from the previous corrupt Republican administration (both four-year terms), but with this latest news that the Obama administration is treating the Secret Service-maintained visitor logs as “executive privilege,” I have major doubts that we’ll ever learn who has been visiting our House, whether in the corrupt Bush/Cheney administrations or now in the Obama administration.

(Note: I voted for President Obama, not only for drastic change from the corrupt Republican policies that have done so much harm to our democracy, but also to hold the corrupt Bush/Cheney Republicans accountable for their foul deeds. To say the least, I’m a little disappointed so far).

I think you’re alluding to the fact that, by law, encryption systems must have a back door that the govt can use to get in.

Maybe there’s a Starbucks with Wi-Fi across the street?

I’m sure the courageous crimefighter Eric Holder would be all over this if he took a break from framing Al Qaeda wannabee losers to check the news of the day.

Bush’s spying program was nothing more than high tech Watergate. There is no doubt in my mind that every phone call, every e-mail and every internal discussion of Kerry’s campaign was tracked and handed over to BushCo.

Patriot Act my ass.

Well said! You’re singing my song, sister.

How the hell do you know that, Senator?

What’s the definition of “flagrant,” Senator?

What did they find in YOUR email, Senator?

Very well said, and I completely agree.

Once a email has been flagged who get’s that information and what is done with e-mail?

I wonder if NSA is spying on the “Evil-Ruthless Traitor” Cheney, now that he is a civilian, who could possibly be plotting a domestic terror attack?

I’m with Real Time Bill…this is not what I voted for!

Anyone who sends anything important via email is a fool.
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I agree, because e-mail is (unfortunately) relatively easy to hack into. Even Sarah Palin’s private e-mails were hacked into by some determined individuals.

But this doesn’t excuse the NSA from spying on private e-mail accounts of Americans without cause.

If the e-mail account is owned by another (such as an employer), it’s reasonable to assume the “owner” has the right to read anything in it (which is why, if you send offensive material using your work e-mail, you could get fired). If the e-mail account is a government account, the contents should be archived and made public (or classified according to procedure) — which is why we got a bit exercised about the deletion of mass e-mails during the Bush administration.

Private e-mail accounts should not be read by anyone without a warrant. Like phone calls. Period.

I seem to recall a story, a number of months ago, about some Republican members of Congress finding out that their emails had been scooped up by the NSA, at which time they finally began to object to the entire program. (They had no problem with the program when it was just “ordinary Americans” whose privacy rights were being violated.)

Like 2-year-olds, nothing happens in GNOPerLand until it happens to them. I’m sure they had no problem with spying on Democrats.

PEACE