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June 6th, 2013
04:23 PM ET
Big Brother tracking phone calls
Has the government been keeping track of your phone calls? CNN's Brooke Baldwin explains how this is legal.
On Twitter
Following the indictment of one officer involved in the shooting of Breonna Taylor, Kentucky Attorney General Danietwitter.com/i/web/status/1…OU
“The President clearly loves to prey on people's fears. He spreads the disease of hate everywhere he goes." Democratwitter.com/i/web/status/1…DHxc
Dr. Deborah Birx has confided to aides and friends that she is "distressed" with the direction of the White House ctwitter.com/i/web/status/1…gD
“You’ve misconstrued that, senator, and you’ve done that repeatedly in the past.”
Dr. Fauci pushes back agatwitter.com/i/web/status/1…DkVgNVNdec
“We’re committed to data and science and to give the American public the best public health recommendations we catwitter.com/i/web/status/1…7ojPrN
So the spying is ONLY targeting "non-US persons" and the information collected is ONLY "metadata." The question is then, how do the NSA, FBI and the rest of the government connect the two dots? How would those entities determine whether the metadata was mined from non-US persons?
The President insisted that there's oversight for all the data mining, and this is being reviewed regulary. Do we just take his word for it? Or do we just accept that politicians never lie, and they never abuse their power? Again, if everything is classified, is there proof that court orders were in PROPERLY reviewed and issued?
Metadata is data.
Why doesn't this bother me?I guess i have nothing to hide. I'm just hoping and praying we have a massive amount of over site on this program. Nobody read the patriot act when they passed it. Way to go congress!