Impeach The NSA

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Impeach the NSA

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.
Edward Snowden said this just last year in 2013. The unconstitutional atrocity that is the NSA (National Security Agency) has not been ended since then. America and likely the world is being monitored by an agency of the United States government that has the ultimate power, information. Leaders and workers of the NSA should be punished heavily for millions of violations of the Bill of Rights and misappropriation of tax payers money.

A man named Gordon Adams who used to be a White House budget official stated that the budget for the NSA probably exceeds twenty billion dollars a year. While this number is not exact, because it cannot be due to the secretive nature of the NSA, the source is most likely close. In other words, the NSA drains twenty billion dollars from American tax payers to disservice the American tax payers. NSA Deputy Director John C. Inglis admitted that the NSA is permitted a “three-hop analysis” which means that if an American is the friend of someone, who is the friend of someone, who has a potential Egyptian terrorist on their Facebook friends list, the NSA can be investigating the American, in full. Imagine someone had 1 friend. Now imagine that friend has an average amount of friends and so do their friends. The one friend (1st degree of separation) will link them to one hundred and sixty three new people (2nd degree of separation), all of the ...

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