Prediction: Congress will very shortly pass a law banning the NSA spying ...

[Scuba]

... on Congress-critters.

[cali]

1. I was about to say that your optimism is

a bit on the naive side but then I saw the money line.

[Arctic Dave]

2. Got me.

The chances of the toothpaste going back into to the tube is, nil to get f*cked.

[think]

3. I hope this isn't classified information you're sharing...

Yes, I feel the need to add this now....

[sabrina 1]

4. And they will make it retroactive, the new way to protect those in power, so that anything

the NSA already has on them will become illegal to use against them.

Actually that would be a good thing because one of the most dangerous things about all this spying is how it can be used against elected officials and probably has been.

Actually my prediction is that this will not go away until laws are passed seriously restricting the anti-Constitutional behavior of the NSA and Security Contractors. And it will be International. Already there are calls for the International Community to begin the process of making these massive spying policies on innocent people, illegal.

As one spokesperson said about HIS country 'we guarantee our citizens the right to privacy so it is outrageous that those rights have been violated and it is our duty to fix that now'.

[gordianot]

5. I figure there is something we are not being told.

The NSA is not the only organization doing this nor is the United States the only country with this capability.