Police State

Despite protests, New Zealand parliament grants government greater spying powers. I wonder how much NSA blackmail was necessary to pass that.

It's funny to watch how NSA is trying to cover up its massive spying on Americans by admitting to small amounts of spying on Americans, and calling that mistakes. And once again, it declassified info, which it claims is a crime for Snowden to do.

Opinion obtained under FOIA shows FISA court had declared NSA spying on Americans unconstitutional and that NSA had repeatedly lied to the court about it.

"A federal judge sharply rebuked the National Security Agency in 2011 for repeatedly misleading the court that oversees its surveillance on domestic soil, including a program that is collecting tens of thousands of domestic e-mails and other Internet communications of Americans each year, according to a secret ruling made public on Wednesday.

The 85-page ruling by Judge John D. Bates, then serving as chief judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, involved an N.S.A. program that searches the contents of Americans’ international Internet communications, without a warrant, in a hunt for discussions about foreigners who have been targeted for surveillance.

The Justice Department had told Judge Bates that N.S.A. officials had discovered that the program had also been gathering domestic messages for three years. Judge Bates found that the agency had violated the Constitution and declared the problems part of a pattern of misrepresentation by agency officials in submissions to the secret court."

Then changed nothing.

Now government is creating online IDs to better track people.