What's really interesting is the fact the general US population gets up in arms over congressional actions, yet seems to pay little attention to activities such as Eschelon, etc. While a warrant of some kind in most cases is needed to access personal communications (phone, email, etc.) in the US, agencies like the NSA, CIA and their counterparts in the British Commonwealth and other "client" nations routinely scan each other personal comms and gather information, passing it back and forth among each other in a "trade" situation. As long as the NSA, for example, is not actively scanning domestic comms, they benefit from the "outsider" scanning operations who report back to NSA on their "findings", all the while maintaining the illusion they are not tacitly involved in the scans and therefore not violating US laws and Constitutional rights...
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