Superman and the NSA

[TheEuclideanOne]

3. How does one rethink a stance that "they are bored"?

I think that the violation of the 4th ammendment is pretty well known by anybody who made this possible. It is not as though the politicians that helped define these powers are suddenly going to send out a memo saying. "Urgent!, Urgent! Has anybody checked the 4th ammendment?!? I think that we may have a problem. Where is Bob, dammit!? He was supposed to read through the 4th ammendment to see if there are any conflicts. Now we have to sell off all of these computers. Be more careful next time! How embarrassing"

Obviously it is a violation of the 4th ammendment, but the NSA has been doing this for how many decades now? Decades ago they were doing this with ALL telegraphs. Do you really think that they will suddenly shut down their whole operation? If anything, it is far more likely that they will make the 4th ammendment disappear than the other way around.

Remember, releasing the Verizon document was simply releasing a copy of something that our elected leaders authorized under the Bush administrations. We are just seeing a copy of one company's request that we gave the okay on for the last 7 years.

I am curious to know how much of this post will make it through after the NSA redacts the parts they do not authorize.