I just read a piece about the horrible violation of personal liberty it was for the NSA to collect the records of phone calls between people in the U.S. and other countries AND THE COMMENTING SYSTEM REQUIRED YOU TO BE A MEMBER OF FACE BOOK!
Of course that's because everyone knows how much Face Book respects the privacy of its members.
This is such a ridiculous "scandal," especially after the Bush II years. I predict it will actually end up delaying when the FISA system is reformed because as soon as the next inevitable terrorist incident happens, the reform efforts will be discredited through the extreme inflation of the hysteria. Not to mention what happens as soon as it's revealed how much Snowden gave away to stay in the protective custody of first the Chinese and then the Russian governments. Because if there's one thing sure of that, it's that they extracted a price from him to stay there. He will never return to the United States where he might be compelled to reveal that. That is, of course, unless he's stupid enough to flee with four laptops full of classified information to Hong Kong and then Moscow. So maybe he will come back. His father seems to be stupid enough to think he should.
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