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In reply to the discussion: Fugitive Snowden's Hopes of Leaving Moscow Airport Dashed [View all]marions ghost
(19,841 posts)54. That is my understanding
based on everything I've read. They can get anything they want anytime.
But people seem to think the NSA is just going to come out and say "yeah, we can do that, so what."
The NSA is horrified that their cover has been blown, I'm sure. I imagine the ants in the anthill are kinda disturbed.
Absolutely we should ask our members of Congress for the truth about this & support those in Congress trying to get answers.
Not going to write an essay on all the info I've taken in, but from that and talking to people, I feel convinced that the all-seeing data mine runs 24/7 and it's wide open for access to those in the know. I think people who do not want to face this fact are naive at best, complicit at worst.
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And if they think your call record is interesting, let's say you are a senator and you call your
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#30
They are NOT recording every call. They are recording and saving the phone records.
karynnj
Jul 2013
#44
They may have obtained them from the prosecution and from the phone company.
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#64
His point is a valid one--the "gubmint" is only evil when it's doing things that some don't like.
MADem
Jul 2013
#41
So a totalitarian government, one that controls the database with the medical records ...
JoePhilly
Jul 2013
#18
Bollocks. *You* are making that claim. Or maybe some nutcase like Alex Jones
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2013
#24
If the NSA did not have access to all our internet data including our medical records, we wouldn't
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#33