“Binney, for his part, believes that the [NSA] now stores copies of all e-mails transmitted in America, in case the government wants to retrieve the details later.”
Jane Mayer, The New Yorker; required reading.
Seriously, the article, long as it is, is required reading.
Huh. Reads like a Bourne Report. And now Drake is working at an Apple Store? Something funny and strangely ironic about that and I chuckled to myself when I read it.
Scary shit. Obama has so disappointed me with his anointment to power(s) as all the big money has been in catch and release mode while the whistle blowers are being prosecuted.
Big government. I’m probably on a list now… as are you.
Eh.
Sadly, I am not a bit surprised by any of this.
Once again, it reveals how 9/11 was an excuse for so many travesties of justice.
It may be seem overused and trite, but to paraphrase Ben Franklin: He who gives up liberty for security deserves neither.
So, how do we make it stop?