“The pipe dream of many of those who are complaining about the NSA’s massive surveillance scheme is that the NSA can be ‘reined in’ by some type of congressional legislation. They just don’t get it. As long as the NSA exists, it’s going to do whatever it needs to do to protect ‘national security,’ even if that means breaking the law. After all, protecting ‘national security’ is paramount. It is everything. Does anyone honestly believe that the NSA is going to let the country go down if breaking the law enables the NSA to save it? Haven’t these people ever heard the old adage, ‘The Constitution is not a suicide pact’?”
http://fff.org/2014/01/10/the-pipe-dream-of-nsa-reformers/
Related posts:
Real ID Exposed: It Is Worse Than You Think
The “Chechen Connection”, Al Qaeda and the Boston Marathon Bombings
The Trick to Suppressing Revolution: Keeping Debt/Tax Serfdom Bearable
Bill Bonner: Would the Founding Fathers Recognize Modern America?
Doug Casey – Let’s Do A Tour Around The World
Gun Ownership: American Exceptionalism
The Unbearable Truth About Infrastructure and Urban Sprawl
Surrendering U.S. Citizenship Over New Banking Regulation?
Is the Fed Blowing a New Housing Bubble?
Eric Margolis: Why I Keep A Swiss Bayonet On My Desk
Surveillance Self-Defense International [2010]
George Orwell Surely Would Be Amused by the Statolatry in the United Kingdom
Jacob Hornberger: Dealing with the Cops
The Evil of the National-Security State, Part 2 - Jacob G. Hornberger
Obamacare and the New Soviet Man