Oregon Senator Reveals Secret Government Surveillance Grid

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
May 26, 2011

In an interview with Wired, Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, adds yet more confirmation to what many of us have known for years -- the government has built a secret surveillance structure far more portentous and dangerous than anything devised by the PATRIOT Act now up for renewal.

Wyden points to the so-called "business-records provision" of the PATRIOT Act which empowers the FBI to force businesses, medical offices, banks and other organizations to turn over any "tangible things" it deems relevant to a so-called security investigation.

"It is fair to say that the business-records provision is a part of the Patriot Act that I am extremely interested in reforming," Wyden told Wired. "I know a fair amount about how it's interpreted, and I am going to keep pushing, as I have, to get more information about how the Patriot Act is being interpreted declassified. I think the public has a right to public debate about it."

"Surveillance under the business-records provisions has recently spiked," writes Spencer Ackerman. "The Justice Department's official disclosure on its use of the Patriot Act, delivered to Congress in April, reported that the government asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for approval to collect business records 96 times in 2010 — up from just 21 requests the year before. The court didn't reject a single request. But it 'modified' those requests 43 times, indicating to some Patriot-watchers that a broadening of the provision is underway."

During the Bush years, it was revealed that the NSA had engaged in a massive dragnet of electronic communications without court order in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment. In 2006, Bush waved off criticism of NSA snooping and said the program was "necessary to win this war and to protect the American people" against terrorism.

In 2006, the NSA argued that it is above the law and the Constitution and said a courtroom challenge to its surveillance program would expose sensitive state secrets and demanded it be thrown out.

In a filing with the Detroit court, Justice Department lawyers pointed to history in defending the NSA surveillance program, noting President Woodrow Wilson's authorization for government agencies to intercept telephone, telegraph and cable communications during World War I and President Franklin D., Roosevelt approving the interception of "all telecommunications traffic" after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Gail Gibson wrote for the Baltimore Sun.

The NSA was created by secret presidential directive in 1952. It soon grew into a vast intelligence-gathering machine -- and super-state structure -- which intruded into the private lives and communications of all Americans.

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[goscott4]

CIA =

CRIMINALS IN AMERICA

CONTROLLED INFORMATION AGENCY

CROOKS IN ACTION

COCAINE IMPORT AGENCY

CRIMINALS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION

CERTIFIED INTERNATIONAL ANARCHIST

CRIMINALLY INSANE ASYLUM

CLASSIFIED INEPT AGENCY

Scott: The 18th Chapter Of The Book Of Revelation

[thepofmeister]

"THESE ACTS ARE HERE, TO PROTECT TERORISTS, FROM THE PEOPLE".

the time has come to make a choice: freedom from these anti-humanity slime crime syndicate globalist terroist filth ~ or ~ your lifetime, and your offsprings' lifetimes, dedicated to feeding them all they need, to genocidally murderand forever enslave, the human race.

ladies and gentlemen... choose wisely.

[IdIaImIeIoInI]

We have a right to be properly groped ... Lol

[LiquidGatsu]

And one last thing. I know I'm commenting on an old video that no one will bother to read, but really it's not even the government that's fucking shit up. IT'S THE FUCKING SHITTY GREEDY CORPORATIONS. The government can't shut them down because doing so would go against the constitution. It's the corporations in America that are the real fucking evil. That and all the corrupt sick fuck zombies in our nation.

[LiquidGatsu]

treated as animals

[LiquidGatsu]

of Americans that are corrupted. In fact most people are fucking animals. There is so much disgusting corruption among the people it sickens me. murderers, rapists, thieves and just all around sick fucks roaming the nation like retarded fucking zombies. These sick fucks need to be monitored by the government. I applaud the governments efforts to monitor and intercept Americans communications for that very fact. The truth is that people like that are animals and if they do not turn they will be

[LiquidGatsu]

Dude what do you expect from our government? I mean seriously. You actually think the government offices are that corrupt? Albeit there may be some bad/corrupt people in some government offices, but they are quickly identified, rooted out and exposed. There are more altruistic offices that are interested in the wealth and well being of Americans. Americans pretty much get whatever they want and that's a good thing. Your information is so mixed and misconstrued I am baffled.It's the majority

[goscott4]

Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful,[1][2] or alternatively as opposing authority and hierarchical organization in the conduct of human relations.

The CIA makes it's own rules and lies if it gets caught breaking the law! They work for the dark forces of the NWO and have no real respect for any other Govt except the Globalist....

[compr3ss3dr3ality]

They're not "International anarchists...and there's nothing wrong with Anarchism!

[Xander Taylor]

Why is it that you people who call me retarded, idiot, moron, etc, when I visit your pages, have fewer than 60 friends, but you've been on YouTube longer than I have? You're so much smarter than the rest of us, but you aren't very well-liked. Can you explain that?