Let us look at what the people who "justify" NSA's actions say. "It has approval of all three branches of the government." First off, I don't buy a "secret court" watching over the "secret police" any kind of oversight. What is far worse, from a whistle-blower of 2005, we now know that all three branches of the government have been compromised by the illegal spying of the NSA.
Russ Tice blew the whistle on the NSA back in 2005. He asked for protection and to testify before Congress and was ignored by congress. This has all been more than well documented in the historical record.
Tice has already stated this:
Okay. They went after--and I know this because I had my hands literally on the paperwork for these sort of things--they went after high-ranking military officers; they went after members of Congress, both Senate and the House, especially on the intelligence committees and on the armed services committees and some of the--and judicial. But they went after other ones, too. They went after lawyers and law firms. All kinds of--heaps of lawyers and law firms. They went after judges. One of the judges is now sitting on the Supreme Court that I had his wiretap information in my hand. Two are former FISA court judges. They went after State Department officials. They went after people in the executive service that were part of the White House--their own people. They went after antiwar groups. They went after U.S. international--U.S. companies that that do international business, you know, business around the world. They went after U.S. banking firms and financial firms that do international business. They went after NGOs that--like the Red Cross, people like that that go overseas and do humanitarian work. They went after a few antiwar civil rights groups.
He has also said:
...I was worried that the intelligence community now has sway over what is going on. Now here’s the big one. I haven’t given you any names. This was is summer of 2004. One of the papers that I held in my hand was to wiretap a bunch of numbers associated with, with a 40-something-year-old wannabe senator from Illinois. You wouldn't happen to know where that guy lives right now, would you? It’s a big white house in Washington, DC. That’s who they went after. And that’s the president of the United States now.
So if you think that the people who are in charge of oversight have not been compromised - think again.
Try to stay safe!
