NSA targetted Americans' domestic calls

[Ezechiel]

The Justice Department says the problems were technical — they didn’t really know how to distinguish between overseas and domestic calls among the millions of calls it intercepted with the willing help of the phone companies — but they have been solved.

ps...... BS
http://government.zdnet.com/?p=4639
The National Security Administration significantly and systematically abused its warrantless wiretapping powers by targeting Americans, listening in on purely domestic conversations, even trying to wiretap a U.S. representative without a warrant, the Times reported this week.
The revelations largely come from an FBI agent who detailed “significant misconduct” in the program, including targeting Americans with insufficient suspicion that they were engaged in terrorism.
This just shows what many of us suspected: Domestic spying is a give-an-inch-take-a-mile proposition. The spy agencies will always say they are doing this under strict parameters. They will always abuse those parameters. It’s just too tempting. And invariably oversight depends on the agencies coming forward - as they finally did here - with the proof of their own misbehavior. This is driven by the change in administrations, but don’t think for a minute that ANY administration can be trusted to monitor its own adherence to the law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes abbreviated to 1984) is a classic dystopian novel by English author George Orwell. Published in 1949, it is set in the eponymous year and focuses on a repressive, totalitarian regime. The story follows the life of one seemingly insignificant man, Winston Smith, a civil servant assigned the task of perpetuating the regime's propaganda by falsifying records and political literature. Smith grows disillusioned with his meager existence and so begins a rebellion against the system that leads to his arrest and torture.

The novel has become famous for its portrayal of pervasive government surveillance and control, and government's increasing encroachment on the rights of the individual. Since its publication, many of its terms and concepts, such as "Big Brother," "doublethink" and "Newspeak" have entered the popular vernacular. The word "Orwellian" itself has come to refer to anything reminiscent of the book's fictional regime.

Fiction ?

 

[Xylo]

They've been doing it since the 1970's and they'll keep doing it. It's just that now it's legal.