Police State

NSA whistleblower says that Petraeus's situation proves what he and others have been saying: the NSA has everybody's emails for the last ten years or so, and the FBI and others can analyze them at any time.

"It’s everybody. The Naris device, if it takes in the entire line, so it takes in all the data. In fact they advertised they can process the lines at session rates, which means 10-gigabit lines. I forgot the name of the device (it’s not the Naris) – the other one does it at 10 gigabits. That’s why they're building Bluffdale [database facility], because they have to have more storage, because they can’t figure out what’s important, so they are just storing everything there. So, emails are going to be stored there in the future, but right now stored in different places around the country. But it is being collected – and the FBI has access to it."

Congress just found out that all its members are being monitored too, so there's a sudden push for privacy.

Another TSA crook busted for stealing. It's endemic because that job attracts those kind of people.