Holder: NSA Can Collect Emails, Internet Searches

Daily Stormer
April 12, 2014

From TechDirt:

During a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing concerning oversight, Rep. Zoe Lofgren decided to quiz Attorney General Eric Holder about the federal government’s surveillance efforts, starting off with a rather simple question. She notes that the bulk phone record collection program is considered to be legal by its supporters, based on Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allows for the collection of “business records.” So, she wonders, is there any legal distinction between phone records and, say, internet searches or emails? In other words, does the DOJ believe that it would be perfectly legal for the US government to scoop up all your search records and emails without a warrant? Holder clearly does not want to answer the question, and first tries to answer a different question, concerning the bulk phone records program, and how the administration is supposedly committed to ending it.

He eventually admits there is no distinction, and they are basically allowed to do whatever they want.

There’s your freedoms and democracies, White man.

God job voting for the Planet of the Apes. It really showed how progressive and interesting you are.

Take a bow.