Spies Gone Wild

While everyone from Dick Cheney to President Obama are saying we have nothing to fear from our government, and they have the highest regard for the constitution and our rights, they have hidden everything they do behind a veil of secrecy, and as Bill Clinton said, "Deny, Deny, Deny" when questioned about their crimes.

They collaborated with UK intelligence in spying on all government officials attending the G20 Conference in London, 2009.  Now those guys are obviously talking with terrorists, right?  What is the justification for that?  There is another G8 Conference next month in Ireland, think they'll spy on everyone there too?  You betcha.

They are now revealed to be recording and storing  phone calls made in the US, and their analysts can listen to you in real time without a warrant.  Yep, every word you've said on the phone for years could be in their computers.

The Washington Post disclosed Saturday that the existence of a top-secret NSA program called NUCLEON, which "intercepts telephone calls and routes the spoken words" to a database. Top intelligence officials in the Obama administration, the Post said, "have resolutely refused to offer an estimate of the number of Americans whose calls or e-mails have thus made their way into content databases such as ­NUCLEON."

 George Orwell didn't have enough imagination to dream up something as totalitarian as this.
UPDATE:  I wish I had written this article in the Toronto Star.  The author documents how the administration claims to be open and truthful, while playing word games instead of giving answers.