If you've been too busy to keep up with the spying scandal, here's an overview:
- The government is spying on virtually everything we do [3]
- There is no meaningful oversight [6] of the spying programs by either Congress or the courts
- We can keep everyone safe without violating the Constitution [7] ... more cheaply and efficiently than the current system
- The top counter-terrorism Czar under Clinton and Bush says that revealing NSA spying programs does not harm national security [8]
- Whistleblowers on illegal spying have no "legal" way to get the information out [9]
- A high-level intelligence source says "we hack everyone everywhere" [10]
- Some people make a lot of money [11] off of mass spying
- Spying started before 9/11 [12] ... and may have stemmed from an emergency program only meant to be activated in the case of a nuclear war [13]
- Governments and big corporations are doing everything they can to destroy anonymity [14]
- Mass spying creates an easy mark for hackers [15]
- Polls show that the public doesn't believe the NSA [16]
- Surveillance can be used to frame you if someone in government happens to take a dislike to you [17]
- An NSA whistleblower says that the NSA is spying on – and blackmailing – top government officials and military officers [18] (and see this [19])
- High-level US government officials have warned for 40 years that mass surveillance would lead to tyranny in America [6]
- Government spying has always focused on crushing dissent … not on keeping us safe [20]
- While the Obama administration is spying on everyone in the country – it is at the same time the most secretive [21] administration ever [22] (background [23]). That’s despite Obama saying he’s running the most transparent administration ever [24]
Top constitutional experts say that Obama is worse than Nixon [25] ... and the Stasi East Germans [26]
