In a very familiar sounding mantra, the NSA stated in a legal filing to a federal court last Friday that it’s ‘too big to comply with the law’.
“ [A]ttempts to fully comply with the Court’s June 5 Order would be a massive and uncertain endeavor because the NSA may have to shut down all databases and systems that contain Section 702 information in an effort to comply.” the filing reads.
The filing comes from a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is challenging the NSA’s warrantless collection of American citizen’s private data.
So…
– We bailed out private banks with tax payer money because they were ‘too big to fail’
– The bankers are also ‘too big to jail‘ so nobody has gone to prison for trashing our economy and commiting crimes like money laundering to drug cartels. But, like Eric Holder says, “I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy.”
– Now the NSA, following the successful excuse used to cover the banksters, states that it is ‘too big to be lawful’.
Anyone see a disturbing pattern here?
these $#%&!@*s talk about homeland security but where letting in thousands of non American children in this country and who’s paying for them while the NSA and BIG GOVERMENT are linning there pockets with large amounts of dirty money from dirty banking and no one can do anything about it does everyone know why because of dirty laywers is what this country is made up of and a lot of missing paper work
All the more reason to cut them way back.
Time to downsize then!
that is big government. for you.let see all the big agency in the government how big are they ? the government. by the constitutions has to obay the. law just. like us ,so does. all of congress &the president and his. staff . but does. this administration ??? look at history , Nazis. ,fascist &Marxists country. don’t obay their. own laws too.???
“[T]here is both an intrinsic and instrumental value to privacy. Intrinsically, privacy is precious to the extent that it is a component of a liberty. Part of citizenship in a free society is the expectation that one’s personal affairs and physical person are inviolable so long as one remains within the law. A robust concept of freedom includes the freedom from constant and intrusive government surveillance of one’s life. From this perspective, Fourth Amendment violations are objectionable for the simple fact that the government is doing something it has no licence to do–that is, invading the privacy of a law-abiding citizen by monitoring her daily activities and laying hands on her person without any evidence of wrongdoing.
Privacy is also instrumental in nature. This aspect of the right highlights the pernicious effects, rather than the inherent illegitimacy, of intrusive, suspicionless surveillance. For example, encroachments on individual privacy undermine democratic institutions by chilling free speech. When citizens–especially those espousing unpopular viewpoints–are aware that the intimate details of their personal lives are pervasively monitored by government, or even that they could be singled out for discriminatory treatment by government officials as a result of their First Amendment expressive activities, they are less likely to freely express their dissident views.”
― John W. Whitehead, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State
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That is a crock of $#%&!@* !
Sounds like BO when he gets going!
seems this applies to the government in general.
These NSA $#%&!@*s fail to realize that they are the law and not above it!
No person, corporation, or federal agency is TOO big to obey the law. This in charge think such should be removed IMMEDIATELY!