Biden Terrifyingly Grows Ranks Of Government Spies, by Kevin Gosztola

They are watching you, and their ranks are growing all of the time. From Kevin Gosztola at thedissenter.org:

The White House enthusiastically backed surveillance reauthorization that despite a fresh record of routine abuses expands security agencies’ spying power.

Biden Terrifyingly Grows Ranks Of Government Spies
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On April 20, Edward Snowden declared, “America lost something important today, and hardly anyone heard. The headlines of state-aligned media screech and crow about the nefarious designs of your fellow citizens and the necessity of foreign wars without end, but find few words for a crime against the Constitution.”

The NSA whistleblower was referring to the United States Senate reauthorizing and expanding surveillance under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. 

President Joe Biden circulated a memo that cast the Fourth Amendment right to privacy as a “threat to national security.” Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Attorney General Merrick Garland called members of Congress to ensure that they voted to give spy agencies renewed power.

Specifically, “Patriot Act 2.0,” as Representative Zoe Lofgren called it, broadened the definition of service providers and exponentially increased the power that the government has to force numerous business and industries to aid warrantless surveillance. 

Senator Ron Wyden strongly opposed the legislation and even introduced an amendment that would have prevented this assault on civil liberties. But the Senate rejected his effort to protect privacy. 

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2 responses to “Biden Terrifyingly Grows Ranks Of Government Spies, by Kevin Gosztola

  1. Sun von Rommel's avatar Sun von Rommel

    Privacy is obsolete in Only Fans, Tik-Tok, World Star Hip Hop circus?

    What do you have to hide, comrade citizen?

    Imagine a people so dull and demoralized they send in their DNA samples to pages owned by foreigners and fill out their own social media dossier.

    Will social media account and stupidphone be mandatory one day in the near future?

    Reading about Germany arresting six “spies” in one week.

    NSDAP Deutschland had spies on every block from busybody block warden citizen up to GEheimeSTAatsPolizei in plainclothes, transparency uber alles in the hive collective, we’re all in this together, comrade.

    Fweedom Fwies or you’re an evildoer.

    When they finally close the border it will be to keep us in.

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