The National Security Agency was slated to hold an emergency special "Top Secret" meeting yesterday with House Representatives to try and head off an Amendment that would rein in the agency's ability to gather private information about American citizens and others living here legally or illegally. Those who attended the Tuesday meeting are prohibited from talking about what they learned at the meeting or, presumably, even the fact that such a meeting took place.
The measure, which would be attached to the Pentagon’s spending bill, “ends authority for the blanket collection of records under the Patriot Act” and “bars the NSA and other agencies from using Section 215 of the Patriot Act to collect records, including telephone call records, that pertain to persons who are not subject to an investigation under Section 215.” The position of the agency, ever since day one of this scandal's emergence, appears to be that they are entitled to know anything and everything about anyone and everyone, whether suspect or not.
A secret intelligence court has interpreted the law to allow the NSA to collect hundreds of millions of records on every American phone call under the theory that such records "might" be useful in "future terrorism investigations."
This is an outrageous, totally unconstitutional abuse of power and invasion of privacy. Every single one of us needs to get engaged in understanding the implications of this and the other scandals and in stopping their effects on our government. We are headed straight for an internal conflict the likes of which has never before existed in the history of the world.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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