FBI asserts right to monitor cell phones without a warrant

[popobawa4u]

I think we should start using the pervasive surveillance to entrap the FBI and NSA. Lure them in with tantalising, career-boosting illegalities - and then black bag the fuckers.

[Kevin_Harrelson]

@Shuck

“Some dark, terrible secret so horrible that the public could not handle…”
Or, you know, there’s a power structure within the US and various agencies with their own agendas and activities that the president doesn’t have a whole lot of ability to control because he relies on them far more than he has power over them. We can at least give Bush (or rather his administration, since he was a puppet figurehead) blame for setting up a lot of grossly unconstitutional programs, but even in the absence of Bush’s administration, some of this stuff was going to happen anyways, regardless of the president. I do believe Obama had at least some desire to change things, but once he got into office, the political reality set in and he realized it would be political suicide to even try.
I wish there was some dark secret, because the alternative is a power structure that’s incredibly complex and resistant to any sort of democratic process, which all the evidence indicates is the case.

Hah. Riiiiight. I still vote for aliens… or maybe leprechauns. You can’t trust the little bastards.