Your Big Government at work again:
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
Most of the infractions involve unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the United States, both of which are restricted by statute and executive order. They range from significant violations of law to typographical errors that resulted in unintended interception of U.S. e-mails and telephone calls.
The documents, provided earlier this summer to The Washington Post by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, include a level of detail and analysis that is not routinely shared with Congress or the special court that oversees surveillance. In one of the documents, agency personnel are instructed to remove details and substitute more generic language in reports to the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
via NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds – The Washington Post.
But, people like me who believe that big Government is bad government are called crazy, racists, and all sorts of other names. 🙄
You see, unlike the Neocons; of which I am not a part of, nor will I ever be — who only distrust the Government, when a neo-liberal Democrat is in office, but when a Neoconservative is running the show, everything is fine. I distrust the Government no matter WHO is in charge, that is because I happen to know the damned thing is corrupt, from the bottom to the top.
Also too, because I, like Pat Buchanan, happen to know that there is not much different between both beltway parties anymore. Both love Big Government, both love Globalism, and Both love stomping on the United States Constitution. Something they’ve done for years.
Related: Marc Tracy / The New Republic: New Snowden Docs Show We Don’t Even Know What We Don’t Know
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