risking his life to tell you about NSA surveillance [ot]

You're treating covert operations as if they can operate once they're compromised.

While the world impatiently awaits a decision by Edward Snowden on where he will accept asylum, back here in America, we have been dealt another slap in the face of freedom by the nation’s surveillance court. What once used to serve as a check and balance system for preventing corruption among the ranks of the political system, has now taken a drastic turn in the opposite direction. In secretly held meetings the FISA court has issued rulings that have expanded the draconian police state practices of the NSA. The FISA court rulings can be viewed as nothing more than another slap in the face of freedom. This court, its officers and those they support, have placed themselves on a pedestal and consider themselves above reproach.

How long do you think it will be before another slap in the face of freedom takes the place of this one? We have grown fat, lazy and complacent in our acceptance of the wrong doings purported by those falsely elected to positions of power. Our own inactivity promotes a platform for their push for increased power. We are no longer a country of the people, by the people and for the people. We have morphed into a country governed and controlled by the favored few at the expense of the many.

NYT:

“In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the National Security Agency the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans while pursuing not only terrorism suspects, but also people possibly involved in nuclear proliferation, espionage and cyberattacks, officials say.”

They will continue to deliver another slap in the face of freedom time and time again, while simultaneously painting portraits of patriots as traitors as they have with Edward Snowden, who in light of these facts, appears more and more like the ONLY American left with a spinal column keeping them erect.

NYT:

“The 11-member Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, known as the FISA court, was once mostly focused on approving case-by-case wiretapping orders. But since major changes in legislation and greater judicial oversight of intelligence operations were instituted six years ago, it has quietly become almost a parallel Supreme Court, serving as the ultimate arbiter on surveillance issues and delivering opinions that will most likely shape intelligence practices for years to come, the officials said.”

Take a look at the timeline included in that statement. The major changes took place 6 years ago, shortly after Obama took office after a dazzling display of denouncing the Bush administration for conducting illegal wiretapping adventures. The longer he remains in office the greater the chance for another slap in the face of freedom to occur.

NYT:

“Unlike the Supreme Court, the FISA court hears from only one side in the case — the government — and its findings are almost never made public. A Court of Review is empaneled to hear appeals, but that is known to have happened only a handful of times in the court’s history, and no case has ever been taken to the Supreme Court. In fact, it is not clear in all circumstances whether Internet and phone companies that are turning over the reams of data even have the right to appear before the FISA court.”

If you are still content to sit idly by and withstand these atrocities, then you will undoubtedly give nothing more than a passing glance to another slap in the face of freedom when it arrives sometime later this week.

#anotherslapinthefaceoffreedom"

There's a good percentage of our "elite" Americans running the USA govt. banking and politics infrastructure who are on Bath Salts

He did, in fact, compromise covert operations, by taking those laptops to China and bragging about his ability to compromise them.

If a known terrorist mails you a letter, does the gov't have any right to intercept and read it?