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Spying on Americans Elicits Many Questions but few Answers - do you Agree?

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Spying on Americans Elicits Many Questions but few Answers - do you Agree?

    

What if the National Security Agency ( NSA ) knows it is violating the Constitution by spying on all Americans without showing a judge probable cause of wrongdoing, or identifying the persons it wishes to spy upon, as the Constitution requires? What if this massive spying has come about because the NSA found it too difficult to follow the Constitution? 

What if the Constitution was written to keep the government off the people's backs, but the NSA, the president, and some members of  Congress, have put the NSA not only on our backs, but in our bedrooms, kitchens, telephones and computers? What if when you look at your computer screen the NSA is looking right back at you? 

What if all this spying doesn't work? What if the NSA has too much data about all of us? What if the president knowingly declined to uphold the Constitution and instructed his spies to do the same? What if the NSA is so accustomed to spying on all of us all the time that it lacks the ability to obtain probable cause and to identify the persons upon whom it needs to spy? What if the government's culture of secrecy and spying has taken on a life of its own? What if even those who started it are afraid to stop it?

What if secrecy has replaced the rule of law? What if that replacement has left us in the dark about what the government knows and what it is doing? What if few in government believe in transparency? What if few in government believe in the Constitution?

What do we do about it? - Source





 

Going to wait for somebody else to do something about all the government spying.
The government has a good reason for spying - to keep us safe.
Constitution trumps government spying - we can notify the president and congress.
Something else we can do.

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Lance Ciepiela is a retired senior who had an interesting career in government service - a United States Marine Corps (USMC) Vietnam-Era veteran, who became interested in restoring the Constitution after I realized that W Bush had attacked (more...)
 

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