NSA's Verizon Surveillance: How the White House Tramples Our Constitution!

- The NSA, like the CIA, MI5/6, Mossad …., is an Illuminist intelligence agency! In the occult, Satanic world; it is the puppet masters, the people behind the scenes, unseen, rarely heard publicly, who are the powerful controlling force! The NSA is more to be feared than the CIA, MI5/6 … It is a higher order, higher rung Illuminist organization in charge of the Beast ‘666’ network. This network is already in operation and is being rollout worldwide incrementally. The usual Satanic methods of: subtlety and deception are being used to brainwash the sheeple! Keep in mind that practically all the top software companies are Illuminist owned and controlled !
– - See also: Exposing the NSA Echelon System and ALL phone calls in the US are recorded and accessible to the government, claims former FBI agent!
– - NSA’s Verizon surveillance: how the White House tramples our constitution!
by Rand Paul, The Guardian
Senator Obama once showed great concern to safeguard US freedoms. But as president, he rides roughshod over liberty.
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In December 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama joined then-Senator Chris Dodd in threatening to filibuster the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa). Senator Obama opposed provisions granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that shared private client information with the government. His office released a statement:
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“Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect. Senator Obama supports a filibuster of this bill …”
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Senator Obama was right. Had I been in the Senate, I would’ve voted with him. I’ve even filibustered myself over civil liberties issues I believe are important. Later, supporting an amendment that he believed repealed retroactive immunity from Fisa, Senator Obama said in February 2008:
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“We can give our intelligence and law enforcement community the powers they need to track down and take out terrorists without undermining our commitment to the rule of law, or our basic rights and liberties.”
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Senator Obama in 2007 was rightly concerned that telecommunications companies might get away with sharing clients’ private information without legal scrutiny. This week, we learned that the president’s National Security Agency compelled Verizon to hand over all of its client data records.
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Senator Obama in 2008 wanted to track potential terrorist activity “without undermining our commitment to the rule of law, or our basic rights and liberties”. Today, President Obama undermines the rule of law, basic rights and core liberties – all in the name of tracking terrorists.
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There is always a balance between security and liberty and the American tradition has long been to err on the side of liberty. America’s founders feared a government powerful enough to commit unreasonable searches and seizures and crafted a constitution designed to protect citizens’ privacy.
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Under this administration, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has targeted political dissidents, the Department of Justice has seized reporters’ phone records, and now we’ve learned the NSA seized an unlimited amount of Verizon’s client data. Just when you think it can’t get any worse under this president, it does. This is an all-out assault on the constitution. These actions are unacceptable under any president, Democrat or Republican.
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I can remember well a Senator Obama who joined the Democratic chorus against the warrantless wiretapping of the Bush administration. Now, that chorus has gone mute. The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald has noted what he sees as “a defining attribute of the Obama legacy: the transformation of what was until recently a symbol of rightwing radicalism – warrantless eavesdropping – into meekly accepted bipartisan consensus.”
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Not every Republican or Democrat is part of that consensus. When the Senate rushed through a last-minute extension of the Fisa Amendments Act over the holidays late last year, Senator Mike Lee (Republican, Utah) and I offered an amendment requiring stronger protections on business records that would’ve prohibited precisely the kind of data-mining the Verizon case has revealed. Senator Ron Wyden (Democrat, Oregon) introduced an amendment to require estimates from intelligence agencies of how many Americans were being surveilled. Both these measures were voted down.
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