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1-Old-Man

(2,667 posts)
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 02:46 PM Jul 2013

On the scope of the NSA problem ...

How is it that as the discussion of the surveillance activities of the NSA continue that virtually everyone acts as if the program(s) now being discussed as if they are the only ones the NSA is engaged in and as if they constitute the worst possible affronts to the Constitution.

Folks, there are bound to be lots more programs that we know absolutely nothing about and there is no reason at all to think we have see the worst. This one fellow Snowden may have been in a position to disclose a lot about one or two programs but you can bet anything you like that he was not either involved in or had knowledge of or had access too even a very small part of all that NSA does. Let's face it, virtually everyone in the country knew that the Government has been spying on us since at least early in the Bush Jr. years. The real question should be what is the NSA doing that we don't know about? Just what is the scope of their activities?

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