Originally Posted by
Looper
Your ISP keeps records of every website you visit and they are a private organisation without the same levels of oversight that the government has.
The ISP's and software vendors know which side of their bread is buttered. If the were to refuse the "requests" they would be promptly taken out. Either individually murdered or their business ruined,
The "elected" politicians ask their voters to "trust us we know what we are doing". Unfortunately they fail to justify to their voters the results of their "snooping", murder and terror. On many occasions where they do crack open their sealed door it is shown that they have in fact either lied or have taken actions which have made an irritation into a full blown lethal threat - to their voters. The recent disappearance of a fully loaded airplane, full of men, women and children was a result of their meddling.
Even, allegedley, the CIA itself agrees with the blowback.
When he talks of the "threat to U.S. persons both overseas as well as in the homeland" his audience is a US one, don't think the rest of the "Free World" intelligence agencies are in any way disagreeing with him. It is reassuring to hear that they "think" they have reduced the threat but are unable, or unwilling, to provide understandable evidence to their "trusting" voters.
"And of course they assure us that it's all good, with the CIA's Director John Brennann providing a moment of unintentional hilarity with his apodictic certainty that drones are 'mitigating the threats to the homeland'.
The intelligence community has shown little appetite for Schiff’s proposal, which he previewed in a Feb. 4 House Intelligence Committee hearing with CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
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Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a Democrat on the committee, asked Brennan whether signature strikes might be motivating people to join extremists groups, effectively increasing the threat of attacks on the United States.
“From an intelligence community perspective, we're always evaluating and analyzing developments overseas to include any counter-terrorism activity that we might be involved in to see what the impact is,” Brennan replied. "And I think the feeling is that the counter terrorism activities that we have engaged in with our partners — we the U.S. government broadly, both from an intelligence perspective as well as from a military perspective — have greatly mitigated the threat to U.S. persons both overseas as well as in the homeland.”