Police State

Lessons learned from the Stasi apply to the NSA.

"“When the wall fell, I wanted to see what the Stasi had on me, on the world I knew,” he said. “A large part of what I found was nothing more than office gossip, the sort of thing people used to say around the water cooler about affairs and gripes, the sort of things that people today put in emails or texts to each other.
“The lesson,” he added, “is that when a wide net is cast, almost all of what is caught is worthless. This was the case with the Stasi. This will certainly be the case with the NSA.”"

As many of us have been saying.

NSA spying is about blackmail, not national security.

You have to wonder if the secret impetus for the Christie bridge investigation wasn't NSA collection of his staff's emails.

Top CIA official admits abuses of NSA database, but calls them very minor. I doubt they were minor to the victims.