Saturday, 13 June 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Greetings to all our domestic and especially our steadily growing numbers of fairly regular readers in nearly fifty countries now who should know although the next paragraph is directed to those here in the U.S. that the remainder of the post should prove worthwhile to the many who have expressed interest in the subject matter of the posts here. We are immensely grateful to all of our diverse readers who visit our site for diverse reasons from diverse locations with good intention.
It just can be so challenging these days to try to keep up to be a good informed citizen who stays current with the relentless storm of today's government blatant abuses and less obvious ones constantly encroaching on the constitutional and other rights of the people of the U.S. and other countries of the world community often with absolutely no constitutional nor moral authority even remotely justifying illegal and unethical actions with apparent delusional impunity in areas reserved alone to the people especially given today's propensity of most any government agency to lie emphatically until its principals literally are being walked off to prison or pried out of their office due to stupendous misdeeds and or years-long scandal as the case may be. All the while we are trying to meet our many other obligations while most of all trying to set aside adequate time for the "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" for which we established our U.S. government to protect and preserve us all in the first place.
One way of late to catch hints of Government abuses by the N.S.A. is to listen to President Obama himself as he seems to have developed the unfortunate habit of using the word "transparency" to describe his administration even as it moves especially of late further and further from that description such that it never will be used in any way to describe his legacy other than the fact that any claim to it has been a lie. One can be fairly sure of late that if the President uses that word in public or a speech his N.S.A. or some other executive agency is up to some new secret abuse to which it eventually will be outed kicking and screaming but certainly not by the Obama White House unless caught red-handed (thus of course providing an opportunity for some tortured attempt to twist it into some phony self-accolade for the Obama administration's "transparency" upon being exposed.)
What follows is a recently published New York Times handy summary of N.S.A. publicly known alleged changes and other activities for those unable to keep up with all the latest N.S.A. abuses (which we fear also now are now bleeding inevitably into domestic law enforcement) but wishing at least to be informed as to what has been going on that is publicly known about the N.S.A. organized in an easily readable form with the option to read further in articles expanded as desired:
(Likely superseding 2019 development N.S.A. mass surveillance halted:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/us/politics/nsa-phone-records-program-shut-down.html)
It just can be so challenging these days to try to keep up to be a good informed citizen who stays current with the relentless storm of today's government blatant abuses and less obvious ones constantly encroaching on the constitutional and other rights of the people of the U.S. and other countries of the world community often with absolutely no constitutional nor moral authority even remotely justifying illegal and unethical actions with apparent delusional impunity in areas reserved alone to the people especially given today's propensity of most any government agency to lie emphatically until its principals literally are being walked off to prison or pried out of their office due to stupendous misdeeds and or years-long scandal as the case may be. All the while we are trying to meet our many other obligations while most of all trying to set aside adequate time for the "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" for which we established our U.S. government to protect and preserve us all in the first place.
One way of late to catch hints of Government abuses by the N.S.A. is to listen to President Obama himself as he seems to have developed the unfortunate habit of using the word "transparency" to describe his administration even as it moves especially of late further and further from that description such that it never will be used in any way to describe his legacy other than the fact that any claim to it has been a lie. One can be fairly sure of late that if the President uses that word in public or a speech his N.S.A. or some other executive agency is up to some new secret abuse to which it eventually will be outed kicking and screaming but certainly not by the Obama White House unless caught red-handed (thus of course providing an opportunity for some tortured attempt to twist it into some phony self-accolade for the Obama administration's "transparency" upon being exposed.)
What follows is a recently published New York Times handy summary of N.S.A. publicly known alleged changes and other activities for those unable to keep up with all the latest N.S.A. abuses (which we fear also now are now bleeding inevitably into domestic law enforcement) but wishing at least to be informed as to what has been going on that is publicly known about the N.S.A. organized in an easily readable form with the option to read further in articles expanded as desired:
(Likely superseding 2019 development N.S.A. mass surveillance halted:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/us/politics/nsa-phone-records-program-shut-down.html)
National Security Agency
News about the National Security Agency, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
CHRONOLOGY OF COVERAGE
JUN. 5, 2015
Classifed National Security Agency documents provided by Edward J Snowden indicate Obama administration, sans public notice, has expanded agency's warrantless surveillance of Americans' international internet traffic to hunt for evidence of malicious computer hacking; disclosures come at time of pernicious cyberattacks, but also of increased scrutiny of legal rights for more government surveillance. MOREJUN. 5, 2015
Op-Ed article by Edward J Snowden expresses satisfaction that two years after he revealed extent of National Security Agency's surveillance of American citizens, there is now wide consensus that such activities were illegal and many of them have been stopped; warns that while progress has made, right to privacy is still under threat. MOREJUN. 4, 2015
News Analysis; Pres Obama's revision of National Security Agency's phone record collection program seeks to tailor program to his own competing aims of addressing privacy concerns while preserving means of monitoring terrorist activity; in so doing, Obama has solidified his ownership of controversial program begun by predecessor George W Bush. MOREJUN. 3, 2015
Senate passes bill scaling back federal government's extensive surveillance of American phone records, and Pres Obama signs it; legislation signifies significant overhaul of national security policy formed after 9-11 terrorist attacks, and is rebuke to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who fought forcefully against lessening government surveillance powers. MOREJUN. 3, 2015
Sen Rand Paul's libertarian stance on national security issues, including his rather lonely fight against National Security Agency's surveillance of American citizens, has endeared him to supporters of his father Ron Paul during former congressman's past presidential bids; many of the elder Paul's backers have been slow to warm to Sen Rand Paul, questioning his commitment to his father's ultra libertarian ideals. MORE
