Of course, I'm a paranoid lunatic, and this really isn't happening. But from the Facebook page of "Recall Every Congress Who Voted For the NDAA", comes this gem:
In a secret government agreement granted without approval or debate from lawmakers, the U.S. attorney general recently gave the National Counterterrorism Center sweeping new powers to store dossiers on U.S. citizens, even if they are not suspected of a crime, according to a news report.
Earlier this year, Attorney General Eric Holder granted the center the ability to copy entire government databases holding information on flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and other data, and to store it for up to five years, even without suspicion that someone in the database has committed a crime, according to the Wall Street Journal, which broke the story.
Whereas previously the law prohibited the center from storing data compilations on U.S. citizens unless they were suspected of terrorist activity or were relevant to an ongoing terrorism investigation, the new powers give the center the ability to not only collect and store vast databases of information but also to trawl through and analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior in order to uncover activity that could launch an investigation.
The changes granted by Holder would also allow databases containing information about U.S. citizens to be shared with foreign governments for their own analysis.
Now, everyone knows that AG Holder would NEVER do anything like this, and if it was happening, well, Bush started it. Nevertheless, just in case it is true, here is the original story:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...n-us-citizens/
Question: Are you
really ok with this?
Seriously? Then don't call me a lunatic!
Attorney General Secretly Granted Gov. Ability to Develop and Store Dossiers on Innocent Americans
