Sunday, January 21, 2018

The Independent Duchy: NSA

Apparently the NSA has decided to become a law unto itself, not subject to POTUS nor Congress, nor SCOTUS and its subsidiaries.

...Nowhere is that "independence" of the 'state within a state' more evident than in the blatant and egregious news this week that The National Security Agency destroyed surveillance data it pledged to preserve in connection with pending lawsuits and apparently never took some of the steps it told a federal court it had taken to make sure the information wasn’t destroyed, according to recent court filings....

But the Agency apologized.  Doesn't that count for something?

Need we say once again.....

...Word of the NSA’s foul-up is emerging just as Congress has extended for six years the legal authority the agency uses for much of its surveillance work conducted through U.S. internet providers and tech firms....

...a practice fully enabled by Sen. Ron Johnson just last week.

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