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Clapper: U.S. Surveillance Activities Are Lawful
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Despite what some media outlets are reporting, surveillance activities carried out by the U.S. government under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act are lawful, James R. Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said in a statement.
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For years, intelligence veterans Thomas Drake, William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe have told anyone who would listen that the NSA collects huge swaths of communications data from U.S. Citizens.

Now, in their first joint interview, they tell USA TODAY that the documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old NSA contractor who worked as a systems administrator, prove their claims of sweeping government surveillance of millions of Americans not suspected of any wrongdoing. And they say those revelations only hint at the programs' reach. Ref. USAToday

Eavesdropping History & Civil Business Politics

The chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee today accused the CIA of inappropriately searching the committee's computers as the panel investigated the CIA's detention and interrogation program.

Speaking on the Senate floor, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said CIA Director John Brennan told her in January that agency personnel searched the computers because of a belief that the panel might have had access to an internal review of the matter.

"The CIA did not ask the committee or its staff if the committee had access to the internal review or how we obtained it. Instead, the CIA just went and searched the committee's computer," She said. "... I have grave concerns that the CIA search may have ... Violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution." Ref. CNN

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What Happens When Spies Can Eavesdrop on Any Conversation?:

Imagine having access to the all of the world's recorded conversations, videos that people have posted to YouTube, in addition to chatter collected by random microphones in public places. Then picture the possibility of searching that dataset for clues related to terms that you are interested in the same way you search Google Ref. Source 4

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If you always assume 'they' are snooping then it isn't really eavesdropping. Its kind of like shouting in a room full of people, someone will hear what you are saying but that doesn't stop you from coding what you are saying. .

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WikiLeaks claims CIA could bug reset iPhones

A "Factory reset" deletes a phone's operating system and replaces it with an untainted version. Ref. Source 8e.

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This ties in to my fear of the Government' power. It has come to a tipping point where the Government is becoming omnipotent, and that is not good for liberty. We need to be aware of what our Government does and hold them accountable. It's too easy to lose freedoms many died to protect.

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You have to remember the old saying. "Those who give up freedoms to be more secure will have neither freedom or security" I say this because I think that is the route our government is currently taking. It is doing away with a lot of our freedoms that so many have died to protect and many of the people are just watching it be taken away from them without a fuss.