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Zonie63 -> RE: Oh nice... NSA employees stalking "love" interests... (8/28/2013 4:47:38 AM)
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ORIGINAL: JeffBC
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ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy
3,000 times in a one year period!
Isn't it about time for some major Congressional Hearings???
NSA employees spied on their lovers using eavesdropping programme
Congressional hearings? Aren't you a conservative? This reminds me of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to study why kids fall of tricycles. What do we need to study. The NSA created the world's biggest honey pot and the bees are circling. This was inevitable.
The only study I want to pay for is one to study what exactly they have built and how to get rid of it.
I don't see any problem with calling for congressional hearings in this case, since that's what our system of checks and balances are supposed to do.
I agree with you about the studies. I remember a study to find out why prisoners want to escape from prison.
I don't know if congressional hearings on the NSA would amount to a "study," but perhaps more an investigation. But I'm not even sure if Congress will do anything. With guys like Senator Graham bellowing against Russia and demanding Snowden's return, there will likely be a lot of debate before Congress does anything - which will turn out to be nothing.
I think this also needs to be more closely scrutinized by everyone else in society as well. When it comes to government surveillance, restrictions on our freedom, and violations of the Constitution for the sake of national security, there do seem to be some rather sharp differences of opinion among the public. Some people actually believe that this sort of stuff is a necessary evil and they trust that it's all being done "for our own good." A lot of people accepted it during World War II and the Cold War, just as many accept it during the War on Terror, the War on Drugs, or whatever other "wars" we might be fighting.
This is a question which our country will eventually have to come to terms with, not just in regards to surveillance and the invasion of our privacy (which is bad enough), but also with the powers we allow our government to have for the sake of national security and public safety. Is this something that can be codified as an Amendment to the Constitution? Or should it remain some "unwritten law" that gives the government a virtual blank check to exert whatever force or other government action is necessary to deal with whatever level of danger there is to deal with?
Another relevant question is whether or not our government genuinely and sincerely has our nation's interests at heart. Are our leaders formulating and conducting our policies with wisdom and foresight? Are they taking an honest and objective look at the world and reaching a logical conclusion about what our country's role should be?
If we the people are being asked to trust that what the NSA is doing is "for our own good," then we also need to consider how our leaders formulate their ideas of "good." What exactly are our "national interests" and why? These are the questions we need to keep reviewing.
And if they really do have a genuine desire to safeguard America's security and national interests, why can't they just do so openly? If they're really sincere, then what do they have to hide? If there's a legitimate justification for all of this, then all they have to do is come clean and let the people judge for themselves. I don't think that they will, but if they did, I believe the public would judge them fairly. Some people believe that if Nixon had come clean from the start and didn't engage in any cover up, the public would have forgiven him and he wouldn't have been impeached. It's the cover up that oftentimes becomes worse than the act itself.
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