@bascule I'd pose this question differently: did the NSA have political approval, and from whom, to continue & scale up their operations?
That said, the NSA violating their charter and the US Constitution are tangible enough for most people to understand, I think?
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@sergeybratus I think they had an awful lot of approval from the Bush Administration after 9/11 -
@bascule Also note that the previous administration's constitutionally suspicious acts were all over the newspapers (e.g., John Yoo, etc.) -
@sergeybratus see also: NSA "Domestic Spying", Room 641A, Thomas Drake, Bill Binney -
@bascule Yeah, but these already look like they are from a previous era, before NSA-gle and NSA-book :) -
@sergeybratus sure, nobody cared then ;) -
@bascule One just wonders: what about the US press changed since the time it actually hounded US government? :( -
@sergeybratus if the US had a good press ever it hasn't existed since Bush-era complacency. How many people actually remember Room 641A?
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@bascule Privacy is also a "civil right" according to our own Supreme Court. It is a right that predates the Constitution.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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