More on the NSA leaks.............

[bobabode]

"Overall, 56 percent of Americans consider the NSA accessing telephone call records of millions of Americans through secret court orders “acceptable,” while 41 percent call the practice “unacceptable.” "WaPo/Pew Research poll.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...y.html?hpid=z1

To be honest, I think Snowden needs a time out handed to him. Too bad Camp Leavenworth is reserved for military folk. Need I post up pics of people jumping from the WTC towers?

[finnbow]

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is really struggling to explain why he told Congress in March that the National Security Agency does not intentionally collect any kind of data on millions of Americans...."I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner by saying 'no,'" Clapper told NBC News on Sunday.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/i...164742798.html

[bobabode]

More from WaPo/Pew poll...

"But with a Democratic president at the helm instead of a Republican, partisan views have turned around significantly.
Sixty-nine percent of Democrats say terrorism investigations, not privacy, should be the government’s main concern, an 18-percentage-point jump from early January 2006, when the NSA activity under the George W. Bush administration was first reported. Compared with that time, Republicans’ focus on privacy has increased 22 points.
The reversal on the NSA’s practices is even more dramatic. In early 2006, 37 percent of Democrats found the agency’s activities acceptable; now nearly twice that number — 64 percent — say the use of telephone records is okay. By contrast, Republicans slumped from 75 percent acceptable to 52 percent today."

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is really struggling to explain why he told Congress in March that the National Security Agency does not intentionally collect any kind of data on millions of Americans...."I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner by saying 'no,'" Clapper told NBC News on Sunday.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/i...164742798.html

B-b-but, it's incidental!!!

[BlueStreak]

A collection agency recently called me at work, to harrass me about a debt owed by a relative of mine. When I asked the woman how this debt had anything to do with me and how she got my work number in the first place, she hung up quick-like.

It seems the government is not the only entity capable of acquiring phone numbers.

Where is the outcry concerning private industry accessing your information?

Am I going to have to listen to that stupid, old argument that the constitution only protects us from the government but not each other?

Dave

[piece-itpete]

'least untruthful' LOL!

There should be an award for that kind of thing.

Pete

[merrylander]

Let me think, I was in telecommunications for over 50 years and programmed my first computer in 1963. When Florence and I were courting - over a 500 mile separation - our phone calls could run an hour or more.

This made me think of a request we (our Bell group) had from the government for something similar. Now the largest disk drive we had at the time was the IBM 2311. I did some calculations and figured that since they wanted this data stored on-line we would have had 2311 drives strung from coast to coast.

They are storing which number gets overseas calls from other numbers, and even that is going to suck up a hell of a lot of space. There simply is not enough space for storing conversations