Saturday, March 28, 2015

The State Is Spying on You Right Now. Where's the Outrage?

The State Is Spying on You Right Now. Where's the Outrage? - Reason.com
..And when two judges were recently confronted with transcripts of conversations between known drug dealers—transcripts obtained without search warrants—and they asked the police who obtained them to explain their sources, how is it that the cops could refuse to answer?...
The common themes here are government spying and lawlessness.
We now know that the Israelis spied on Secretary of State John Kerry, and so Netanyahu knew of what he spoke.
We know that the Clintons believe there is a set of laws for them and another for the rest of us, and so Mrs. Clinton could credibly believe that her deception and destruction would go unpunished.
We know that the NSA can listen to all we say if we are near enough to a device it can turn on. (Quick: How close are you as you read this to an electronic device that the NSA can access and use as a listening device?)
And we also know that the feds gave secret roadside listening devices to about 50 local police departments, which acquired them generally without the public consent of elected officials in return for oaths not to reveal the source of the hardware. 
It came from the secret budget of the CIA, which is prohibited by law from spying in the U.S.
What's going on here?
What's going on here is government's fixation on spying and lying.

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