QUESTION: Surveillance and the 5th Amendment?

[snot]

Given that the NSA is recording, if not actually reading/listening to, virtually everything we do in public or say or write by phone or online (which for many of us is the majority of our communications), and given that they can go back and dig it up and read or listen to it at any time . . .

. . . is there a sense in which our 5th Amendment right is being eviscerated, in addition to other rights, since even if we refused to testify at trial, if we'd previously ever said or did anything that hinted at anything incriminating, the government could dig it up and present it?

What is the right to refuse to incriminate yourself really worth, if virtually everything you've ever done or said has been recorded, converting your whole life into potentially incriminating testimony?

[Scuba]

1. I was just kidding.

[randome]

2. Yes. IF the NSA is doing what Snowden claims, then it goes against the 5th Amendment.

But as we only have his word for it -and his word has not stood up to scrutiny of late- I seriously doubt the NSA or any other agency is doing this.

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[markiv]

3. yup, the right to remain silent now only applies to mutes with broken typing fingers

because your while life just became a deposition

be gratefull it's not under oath, that you cant get charged for perjery for what you say in private