Person(s) of Interest

No, not them,

Us,

NSA, FBI secretly mining data from Internet firms... 'THEY QUITE LITERALLY CAN WATCH YOUR IDEAS AS YOU TYPE'... MICROSOFTYAHOOGOOGLEYOUTUBEFACEBOOKSKYPEAPPLE... Top-secret PRISM program... Vast Data Trove... Billions of Phone Calls...

THE INTERNET FROM HELL

US intelligence chief denounces info ‘leak’…

NYT: Obama has lost all credibility…

Paper ‘quietly changes published editorial to make less damning’…

Washington Post:

U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program — The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs …

New York Times:

President Obama’s Dragnet — Within hours of the disclosure that the federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a counterterrorism investigation, the Obama administration issued the same platitude it has offered every …

Guardian:

NSA taps into internet giants’ systems to mine user data, secret files reveal — • Top secret PRISM program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Facebook and Apple — • Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007

Comments

jlh says

June 7, 2013 at 4:29 pm

Mercy! I watch Person of Interest. Once upon a time, you could tell the good guys from the the bad.
marc in calgary says

June 8, 2013 at 2:09 am

Nixon only recorded 1 roomful of folks at a time.
inflation, I guess.

Ok seriously, will this change B. Hussien’s approval number enough that John Boehner will find his spine?

Had Rush & Levin on for their full programs today, the entire country should have.
MSgt Dale Day says

June 8, 2013 at 11:20 am

Scary, isn’t it?

I regularly watch the show with the certain knowledge that, under the current administration, the plot isn’t all that far fetched.

Nice article.