Were you really surprised about the "revelation" that the NSA is watching you?

well you need to understand their is a difference between

what project echelon was before and what it has turned into

I always knew that the u.s. listened in on who they suspected of being a terrorist outside this country

but you do not think they are going to far??..

echelon listened to calls , faxes etc , that came into or out of the US . the listening posts were on foreign soil to get around 4th amendment " issues " . it was bush's 2007 homegrown radicalization and terrorist act , section 1955d , that mandates the NSA to sift and save every form of electronic communication from everybody , everywhere , worldwide , without a warrant ( while doing so on US soil ) .this includes the internet , your phones , all debit and credit card transactions , the UNs encrypted communications , embassies , everything on wall street , even this question and answer on yahoo . it made me laugh that the republican members of congress were " shocked " and called him a traitor when all ed snowden did was tell us what was in our own law . it was congress that WROTE and passed this law , bush's signature is right there on the bottom . what a bunch of phonies they are !

People are, by & large, stupid...that is what this "revelation" taught anyone who was actually paying attention in High School....since Edgar Codd developed the first "relational database" whilst working for IBM in the early 1970s, making "looking for patterns" in huge piles of unsorted raw data easy, cheap & practical, ALL governments and most corporations have been collecting all the data they encounter & sifting through it looking for anything to give them an "edge"...

Folks who were genuinely "surprised" by the NSA story are basically telling the rest of us "Hey look at me! I'm clueless!"....which of course is yet another data-point that will help criminals target THEIR homes & bank accounts!

No. I would be surprised if our government is the only one that was. Putting anything on the internet, for instance, is like shouting in a crowded room. Privacy is an illusion.

Nope, I knew about it before the internet was developed. Chances I wasn't the only one privy to that--who did Al Qaeda know?

But, they prefer to call us, "conspiracy theorists". Duh.

Congress has no business attempting to charge Clapper with perjury, when he may in fact have been misinformed.