It not only eerily resembles Orwell’s creation of “Big Brother”, but it also happens to be a massive waste of government resources and has shown very limited upside. For the good of the general public, the National Security Agency should not have access to domestic metadata on the grounds that it has acted unconstitutionally, unethically, and ineffectively. The NSA has secretly, yet deliberately, overstepped its constitutional boundaries. Under the Patriot Act and FISA warrants, the NSA has received judicial permission to pursue metadata avenues in hopes of foiling domestic terrorist attacks. Each time the agency desires to track an individual, it needs to file a request with FISA and a warrant can only be granted if there is reasonable suspicion.
The reason the FBI had jurisdiction is because cyber-harassment is a federal crime. And once the FBI got to Broadwell, they uncovered the affair. From there, Fox News has learned, the first knowledge of the affair outside the FBI came from an agency whistle-blower who contacted a Capitol Hill Republican, who then told House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., got a tip from a friend who knew the whistle-blower, as first reported by The New York Times. Sources tell Fox News that Reichert talked to the whistle-blower, then referred him to Cantor.
More should have been done between the President, CIA, FBI and other appropriate anti-terrorism officials regarding this group and/or its leader. Some may say that the President himself was aware of Osama’s direct dwelling, but because it was a suspected site and not a validated site he withheld attacking. “…the Clinton administration knew the broad outlines in 1996 of bin Laden's capabilities and his intent, and unfortunately, almost nothing was done about it." (Lichtblau, 2005) This gave space for another attack from Al-Qaeda. On October 12, 2000 the USS Cole was attacked by suicide terrorist of Al Qaeda killing American sailors and injuring others.
America with its advanced and sophisticated technology is not safe and secured from external attacks and other terroristic activities of its citizens. Gait Recognition and CC Camera Surveillances throughout the country cannot stop terrorist attack on Bay Bridge which kills more than four thousand people. Moreover, the failure of DHS (Department of Homeland Security) to maintain law and order and its wrong concept of taking every citizen as susceptible terrorist further increase terroristic activities by the frustrated and enraged people and prove itself as an agent of organized terrorism. Marcus Yallow and his technologically well-informed friends are the product of bad schooling and bad system of the government. Clever enough to trick the constant vigilance of school administration and its complete control; they become capable to threaten DHS and even the government.
America needed an excuse to invade their country to obtain these resources. There excuses ranged from overthrowing the communist regime to them holding nuclear secrets and arms. To the general public these seemed like good enough reasons to intervene; but all the excuses they used were not legitimate. For example, it was the United States fault there was a dictator is Iraq to begin with in the 70’s, “US intelligence helped Saddam's Ba`ath Party seize power for the first time in 1963. Evidence suggests that Saddam was on the CIA payroll as early as 1959, when he participated in a failed assassination attempt against Iraqi strongman Abd al-Karim Qassem.
The NSA’s domestic spying program, known in official government documents as the “President’s Surveillance Program,” ("The Program") was implemented by President George W. Bush shortly after the attacks on September 11, 2001. The US Government still considers the Program officially classified, but a tremendous amount of information has been exposed by various whistleblowers, admitted to by government officials during Congressional hearings and with public statements, and reported on in investigations by major newspaper across the country. Our NSA Domestic Spying Timeline has a full list of important dates, events, and reports, but we also want to explain—to the extent we understand it—the full scope of the Program and how the government has implemented it. In the weeks after 9/11, President Bush authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to conduct a range of surveillance activities inside the United States, which had been barred by law and agency policy for decades. When the NSA’s spying program was first exposed by the
Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely. (1.1.3)” So don’t be surprised if the FBI shows up at your door because you searched something that the NSA can consider an act of terrorism. In all of this info just realize that the government has complete control of its citizens no matter what the constitution says they have what they think is considered a high power. These ideas are great but can be wrong in the wrong hand.
When Liberty is Over Shadow by Security 12/8/2013 Professor Darren Gil Southern University of New Orleans Abstract The purpose of the literature review is to bring awareness that logic behind the FISA Amendment Act is deeply flawed. The law in question is called the Foreign Intelligent Surveillance Act endorsed and expanded the warrantless surveillance program that President George W. Bush authorized shortly after 9/11. It gives the National Security Agency a virtual blank check to intercept Americans’ international phone calls and emails, to store them indefinitely in huge databases, and to share them with other agencies with few restrictions. This examination will discuss examples how the Federal government can invaded Americans’
Google is by far the worst example of an information supplier, in that, a search on Google can inundate the reader with an outlandish list of results. The majority of these results are often not what most educators would consider scholarly work, but instead opinion and conjecture. Wikipedia on the other hand, advertises itself as an encyclopedia type service. While their information is rather extensive and referenced for the reader, its basic flaw is that it is collaborative software. It allows its contributors to freely edit the content that is broadcast through the internet.
The Patriot Act alone makes it allowable to search and seize US citizen’s papers and effects without probable cause, “to assist in a terror investigation” (CCAPA, 2003). Using this, the NSA and other government agencies have been collecting phone records, personal records, internet usage habits, and other meta data of innocents without their knowledge (Kopczynski, 2013). The American Civil Liberties Union has filed suit in court challenging the interpretation of the Patriot Act as a violation of Americans’ constitutional rights. The Patriot Act expanded the government's power to use eavesdropping, surveillance, access to financial and computer records and other tools to track terrorist suspects (Lichtblau, 2003). This has opened the door for the NDAA which seemingly gave the government oversight of your everyday lives.