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NSA surveillance played little role in foiling terror plots, experts say | World news | guardian.co.uk

Global warming is a mess. It’s high time we innovate our way out of it.

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h/t to The Daily Caller and Marc Morano

We are truly blessed in the USA to have profiling-free security apparatus.

Establishment renders harsh verdict on Edward Snowden – Alexander Burns – POLITICO.com

Daniel Ellsberg said something slightly different :

Daniel Ellsberg, the former military analyst who revealed secrets of the Vietnam war through the Pentagon Papers in 1971, described Snowden’s leak as even more important and perhaps the most significant leak in American history.

NSA snooping: Obama under pressure as senator denounces ‘act of treason’ | World news | The Guardian

Nixon went after Ellsberg. How did that work out for him?

Nixon’s impeachment was, via Watergate, the end result of his “plumbers” going after Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers

Edward Snowden and the security state laid bare | Clay Shirky | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Obama scored some political points by revealing the Seal’s identities, which made them a target for the Taliban.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A Philadelphia couple has joined the first class-action lawsuit against the Obama administration over the National Security Agency’s collection of millions of customer phone records from Verizon.

The plaintiffs are calling the domestic spy operation a breach of privacy.

Filed in federal court in Washington, DC on Sunday, the lawsuit names a host of heavy hitters including President Obama, the NSA, and the Department of Justice.

“It’s a violation of our privacy rights, our freedom of association, our due process rights,” says attorney Larry Klayman, founder of Freedom Watch.

Klayman originally filed the lawsuit last week as the sole plaintiff. On Sunday, Charles and Mary Anne Strange — a Philadelphia couple whose son Michael, a US Navy Seal, was killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan in 2011 (see related story) — joined the suit as a class action.

“Somebody has to be held accountable for my son’s death. Thirty brave Americans, the biggest loss in the Afghan war. And that’s when I started asking questions, that’s when my phone got tapped,” Strange said.

Strange claims he heard tapping noises while on the phone and he says he started getting odd texts shortly after his son’s death.

“I called Verizon, ‘I have a text 001 and 002’ and I called them up and I said ‘who’s this?’ and they said it’s somebody listening in from the United States, and someone from Afghanistan,” Strange explained.

The plaintiffs say they have been highly critical of the current administration and are likely targets.

Philadelphia Couple Join Class-Action Lawsuit Against NSA’s Verizon Spying « CBS Philly

We have no dissent in the Soviet White House

If you see an agency of government violating the US Constitution, you are required to report it.

“If You See Something, Say Something” Campaign | Homeland Security

If you do report it, the government will of course reward you.

Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) told FOX Business Network that he fears the U.S. government may try to assassinate the whistleblower who leaked information about National Security Administration surveillance programs to the media.

Ron Paul: US government may try to kill NSA whistle-blower | Fox News

Have you ever seen a time when two freshman senators are able to cower the bulk of the Republican Party in the Senate?

Biden Warns: GOP Led By Two Young Senators, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul | The Weekly Standard

Obama is a freshman senator who didn’t even complete his first term in the senate.

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Obama is a very thoughtful president. He is turning the US into a third world country, so that all the illegal immigrants will feel at home.