Otherwise you might be mistaken for a shit stirring troll. Wouldn't want that to happen. But don't worry, if you haven't done anything wrong, you won't get tombstoned. Or some variation of the same.
NSA isn't really spying! Thank you for my morning laugh. Have you considered stand up comedy? There might just be a future for you.
Now, this is the sit back and listen portion of our discussion. In other words, I'm going to teach you and you are going to shut up and listen. The NSA has always been spying. When they started focusing so closely on our own citizenry is the question being discussed. Kind of like Watergate - who knew and when did they know? You know about Watergate, right?
Hmmm, your post doesn't give me enough information to know if you are a high information or low information person. So, I guess I'll go with the lowest common denominator. Back in the early 70's, the President at the time (Nixon) was becoming increasingly paranoid and had some of his colleagues bug his "enemies", except that they got caught. It was a big scandal and that President had to resign because he was going to be impeached and possibly imprisoned. No worries, though, his VP pardoned him immediately. Anyway, enough of the past.
Let's head forward into another administration. It was the GW Bush Administration. They made Nixon look like a choirboy. That's when the domestic data sweeping began. Now, were the NSA spying on Americans before that? Of course they were, but this was all new! An opportunity to gather every bit of stuff electronically transmitted. That part is not secret. Well, it was supposed to be but that administration was so inept, it had to come out. It was called TIA or Total Information Awareness. Remember when we found out that AT&T had a back room where they were storing all of our calls, both outside and inside the US? 2006 was when we found out about that one.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2013/06/07/u-s-never-really-ended-creepy-total-information-awareness-program/
The American people made a big stink about it and supposedly they closed the program. I didn't believe they did, but notice, I say believe, rather than know. But the revelations of last week support my belief. Sure, its name is changed (because that makes it all better - ask PNAC. Don't know PNAC? Google them) but its intent and purpose is the same, blanket surveillance (spying) on the American people.
Now, your last sentence is also a really, really funny one. Whether the NSA was or was not stopping terrorist attacks has nothing to do with the attendance numbers of the Senators because you see, they aren't actually as Godlike and omniscient as you've made them out to be. They are, for the most part, fully compromised politicians who only care about getting elected for whatever strange reasons they have. Most of them have no interest in governing, so why they picked public service is beyond me.
Let's go on another tangent, shall we? Public servant. Interesting phrase. Let's take it apart. Public = us, We The People. Servant = one who serves, in this case, one who serves us, We The People.
So why in the world did I just go on a long spiel responding to someone who likely won't be here to see it? No reason except the tiny, tiny chance that you aren't a troll and actually can use some of this information. This is the stuff you need to seek out and read. Don't respond or argue, just read and think. If you do that enough, I'll be congratulating you in a few years on your 1000th post and you will be far more educated in politics than many if not most of your fellow Americans.
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