A little side story that didn't seem to get much attention (perhaps due to those mean duck guys) via WaPo:
The NSA's response: "Members of Congress have the same privacy protections as all U.S. persons", which means, as far as I can tell, precisely zero.
While in a way I'm glad to see that members of Congress are for once subject to the same treatment as the rest of us, I'm more than a little uncomfortable seeing that the system of checks and balances that's supposed to underpin a healthy democracy isn't even getting lip service anymore.
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"Has the NSA spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other elected officials?" That's the question Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) put to the National Security Agency's chief in a bluntly worded letter Friday. It seems, however, that the agency cannot categorically say no. Sanders didn't use the word "spy" lightly. He was careful to define his terms, indicating he meant the collection of phone records from personal as well as official telephones, "content from Web sites visited or e-mails sent," and data that companies collect but don't release to the public. |
The NSA's response: "Members of Congress have the same privacy protections as all U.S. persons", which means, as far as I can tell, precisely zero.
While in a way I'm glad to see that members of Congress are for once subject to the same treatment as the rest of us, I'm more than a little uncomfortable seeing that the system of checks and balances that's supposed to underpin a healthy democracy isn't even getting lip service anymore.
via JREF Forum http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=271423&goto=newpost
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