{"id":5907,"date":"2013-09-03T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5907"},"modified":"2013-09-03T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T16:38:00","slug":"nsa-kinda-sorta-actually-is-spying-on-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5907","title":{"rendered":"NSA Kinda, Sorta, Actually IS Spying On Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back, I gave my cautious approval to an NSA program that said it was just collecting phone call metadata; information about<\/i> calls \u2013 like the phone numbers, and date & time \u2013 but not the calls themselves. We can get this same information about government phones, so keeping ours didn\u2019t seem that big a deal. Still, it seemed a bit of overreach.<\/p>\n

Well, we now have more information coming out of the NSA telling us that, well, they did make a few oopsies<\/a>. They told Bloomberg News that, over the past decade, very rare instances of willful violations of NSA\u2019s authorities have been found. Clever use of the passive voice there; no actual names of agents were mentioned. Another spokesman said that the actions were the work of overzealous NSA employees or contractors. Yeah, and just a few \u201coverzealous\u201d IRS workers in Cincinnati were responsible for the entire scandal of targeting conservatives.<\/p>\n

Like most government wrongdoing, this is going to come out in dribs and drabs. Had it stopped with the revelation of phone call metadata, I could have been OK with it. But now we\u2019re hearing about a few slipups here and later a few there.<\/p>\n

I know, I know. Give government power and they\u2019ll first take more, and then abuse it. Wow, now who could have anticipated that<\/i>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while back, I gave my cautious approval to an NSA program that said it was just collecting phone call metadata; information about calls \u2013 like the phone numbers, and date & time \u2013 but not the calls themselves. We can get this same information about government phones, so keeping ours didn\u2019t seem that big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t