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This does not surprise me at all. The government has always wanted to monitor everyone to find those who are doing wrong. You would be surprised at some of the things people talk about. I used to use a scanner at work and would scan the cordless phone frequencies. I heard a lot of very interesting things.

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I don't like the idea of some stranger reading everything I communicate it's an invasion of privacy!

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Do we really believe information wasn't taken before without the use of a Warrant, if the information was coming from out of the country? I would suspect that we have been monitoring communications coming into our country since World War 2 and before and haven't alway obtained court orders to listen into the info coming in.

I hope our intelligence community would have the ability to monitor the millions of communications that come in for certain key words: "kill" "bomb" "death to america" without having to seek a Warrant for every individual communication that comes in. It would be impossible to stop attacks if we could not at least do some general monitoring.

But we do have to make a distinction I believe between Communications between citizens domestically and those between citizens and foreign nationals outside of our borders. The Federal Government has a better case when dealing with communications coming into our sovereign territory and those between citizens within the borders.

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No one respects what is going into tracking all of this. Just imagine focusing on one conversation out of millions. If you want to be private then write a letter or tell the person come over to your home.

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Trolling for Terror or Eavesdropping on the Innocent?

President George W. Bush has assured Americans that the National Security Agency does not compromise civil liberties while monitoring overseas telephone calls for terrorist intelligence. But a pair of former NSA operators have come forward with disturbing allegations about government employees listening in on personal phone calls for their own enjoyment. It's an exclusive story from ABC News chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross that already has the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee asking the Bush administration for answers.
Ref. ABC Nightline

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US spy agency may get more cybersecurity duties

The spy agency that ran the Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping programme may get more responsibility for securing US computer networks, President Barack Obama's intelligence chief told Congress. Ref. Source 8

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Does that mean that the warrantless spying has stopped? I did not see anything that indicated that they have or that they were going yo discontinue it.

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Bush's spy efforts went far beyond wiretapping

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration built an unprecedented surveillance operation to pull in mountains of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, a team of federal inspectors general reported yesterday, questioning the legal basis for the effort but shielding almost all details on grounds that they're still too secret to reveal. Ref. Source 4