The New American
The National Security Agency (NSA) says Americans should trust them
to use their surveillance powers only for good. This from the group
whose leader refused to say how many Americans they are spying on because
it was “beyond the capacity of his office and dedicating sufficient
additional resources would likely impede the NSA’s mission.”
In other words, the NSA is too busy illegally recording our private
emails, texts, Facebook posts, and phone calls to figure out how many of
us are already caught in their net. And, furthermore, there is nothing
Congress can do about it.
Apparently, NSA thinks it’s beyond the court’s oversight, as well.
In a motion to dismiss a class action suit
challenging the nearly unlimited scope of the domestic surveillance
agency’s monitoring of citizens’ electronic communication, attorneys for
the Obama administration argued that it would use the authority granted
it under the Terrorist Surveillance Program only when “absolutely
necessary” and that disclosing the information requested would require
it to reveal protected state secrets.-[Full Article]
