So now we know that the target was not only terrorism. It may have started that way in the minds of some., but that NSA data is finding it's way into other hands.
The DEA and the IRS are getting this stuff. Does anyone care to wager that this is not the last recipient that we will find out about.
To paint a broad brush that everyone is a potential terrorist, and therefore all of their electronic communications are fair game, but only for 'national security' of course, was already a stretch. But of course it was never going to stop there.
And of course it will not stop with the DEA and the IRS either. We are all suspects now, and for the moment it is about whether or not we may be committing a crime. The more people get there hand on this information, it will be used for more and different purposes.
Just the way San Diego Mayor Bob Filner used information he gained as a member of congress to target women who had been victims of sexual harassment and rape, to help select his own targets, so you will find others with access to the NSA data using it for their own purposes.
Got any secrets? Not anymore!
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