United States Intellegence
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Is The NSA Taking Unconstitutional?
The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. “If I wanted to see your emails or your wifes phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards,” Edward Snowden stated in an interview. The unconstitutional atrocity that is the NSA has not been ended since the early 50’s. America and likely the world are being monitored by an agency of the United States government at all times. Leaders and workers of the NSA should be punished heavily for millions of violations of the Bill of Rights and misappropriation of tax payer’s money.
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man named Gordon Adams who used to be a White House budget official stated that the budget for the NSA probably exceeds twenty billion dollars a year. While this number is not exact, because it cannot be due to the shady nature of the NSA, the estimate is most likely close. In other words, the NSA drains twenty billion dollars from American tax payers to disfavor the American citizens. Former NSA Deputy Director John C. Inglis admitted that the NSA is permitted a “three-hop analysis” which means that if an American is the friend of someone, who is the friend of someone, who has a potential Egyptian terrorist on their Facebook friends list, the NSA can be investigating the American, in full length. Imagine someone had 1 friend. Now imagine that friend has an average amount of friends and so do their friends. The one friend (1st degree of separation) will link them to one hundred and sixty three new people (2nd degree of separation), all of the friends friends combined will connect the original person to over twenty six thousand people. If only eleven thousand Americans were actually terrorists, all three hundred and seventeen odd million other Americans would be “legally” connected to a terrorist. That is a waste of time. This is all besides the fact that the NSA has never actually stopped a terrorist attack. An supreme court Judge, ruled the recent acts of the NSA are unconstitutional, saying that upon his request for an example, government officials could not provide,
“a single instance in which analysis of the NSA’s bulk collection metadata collection actually stopped an imminent attack, or otherwise aided the Government in achieving any objective that was time-sensitive in nature.” The NSA is consistently wasting money, thwarting nothing, and violating your privacy.
The NSA has flagrantly violated the 1st amendment. The 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States promises Americans freedom of religion, speech, press, right to assemble, and even “petition for a governmental redress of grievances”. The NSA walks all over these rights every day. NSA officials have some suggestions for revising the 1st amendment. Freedom of speech is infringed upon almost every time you make a call, and its even more likely to be intercepted if you say anything about anything political or geographical topics. The 4th Amendment