>It's also important to note that the NSA currently has the support of the people and the people's representatives. If 80% of the country hated the law that all

>It's also important to note that the NSA currently has the support of the people and the people's representatives. If 80% of the country hated the law that allows blanket collection of business records then it would have been changed long ago. That's ingenious. We didn't know about these secret courts. We didn't know the extent to which we were being spied on. The extent to which laws were being manipulated. Obama's administration even claimed that their interpretation of these laws and therefore what they could do with them were too vital to national security to let us know! Congress wouldn't have had hearings where Keith Alexander had to explain and defend what he was doing if we already knew what he was doing. These wiretap laws also run contrary to an older Supreme Court ruling. You know how the government got around that? Bush's administration claimed that Congress told him to use military power and he considered the NSA a military force so they could ignore the Supreme Court ruling. The FBI did the same. These are twisted versions of laws we allowed that we weren't even allowed to know about. Fuck secret interpretations of laws.