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The Annoyed Man wrote:AND....

Officials: NSA mistakenly intercepted emails, phone calls of innocent Americans
http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/20 ... -americans

Insisting that attempts at "100 percent security" will always come with inconveniences, President Barack Obama said "we're going to have to make some choices as a society." NBC's Pete Williams reports.

By Michael Isikoff
National Investigative Correspondent, NBC News

The National Security Agency has at times mistakenly intercepted the private email messages and phone calls of Americans who had no link to terrorism, requiring Justice Department officials to report the errors to a secret national security court and destroy the data, according to two former U.S. intelligence officials.

"Mistakenly" my aunt Edna's posterior! And I'm particularly tickled by Obama telling us that A) you have to break a few eggs to make omelets; and B) that we better get used to it if we want omelets.

Beiruty wrote:

Holder was asked directly by a Congressman or Senator (don't remember which) whether the DOJ was spying on members of Congress. The AG declined to answer the question.

It the congressman is using a Verizon phone, than, the evident answer is YES!

t_kopecky wrote:What bothers me the most, whether it's TSA employees at the airport, government employees in Washington, or LEOs in a small town, is the number American citizens that are willing to work in positions where they have become OK with violating the rights of other American citizens. If the American Spirit was still alive in some of these people, they would not accept employment doing this to other Americans. Each one of us is required to watch our neighbor's back.