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June 7th, 2013
01:26 PM ET
NSA granted access to U.S. phone records
CNN's Ashleigh Banfield talks with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani about the Patriot Act, NSA, and 9/11.
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IF anyone's name & Information IS NOT linked to the so called BAD guys, that persons name will not be flagged or come up, I suggest to all True Law Abiding Americans,
Not to worry...
Nixon was nearly impeached after wiretapping one phone. Obama is wiretapping all of America.
IMPEACH OBAMA
"Existential threat to democracy"? Snowden shows what too many isolated years with a keyboard for companionship can do to your mind. He joins all those others who fantasize about the military/government stealing our right to TV and fast food. What we should care about are the real victims of crime, theft and homicide that could be saved through intelligent analysis of communications looking for hints of an intent to harm any of us. Facts: How much time are a few thousand NSA/CIA agents viewing 3 billion calls. 294 billion emails. 6.4 billion internet searches EACH DAY going to spend on us chatting/emailing with grandmama or searching online for her apple pie recipe? For those who can't divide anymore, here's the number – each agent would have to monitor 100 million such communications – every day. That is going to be one big backlog – real quick. Still worried!
You know what the crazy thing is, I really i'm not bothered by this. It's crazy to say. I guess it's cause i have nothing to hide.I also think
we need some major oversight on this department. By the way i love Rudy!