So, it looks like records of every phone call in the United States have been obtained and catalogued by the NSA since September 11th, in addition to their now not-so-secret, arguably unconstitutional, unquestionably controversial domestic spying program. I’m not sure which I think is worse, data mining everyone’s phone records, or eavesdropping without warrants - they’re both pretty bad.  On one hand, the Fourth Amendment (which protects against illegal search and seizure) appears to be getting a thorough trampling as of late, and if things continue to go as they have been, may go the way of the Dodo.  Additionally, there are the well-publicized FISA laws, which are designed to specifically handle the sort of secret wiretaps that the President decided to blatantly ignore. All of this has me extremely concerned, not because I’ve done anything wrong, but because our government is setting the stage to grant far more power to the Executive branch than it’s entitled. Let me explain.
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