Government merges closer with corporations to step up surveillance as US heads into total fascism

Wednesday, January 13, 2016
By Paul Martin

by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

For a while after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the spy agency’s massive collection of personal data on tens of millions of Americans, it appeared as though there might be some genuine reform of how the intelligence community operates.

In August 2013, weeks after Snowden first revealed the existence of the NSA’s “Prism” spy program, several lawmakers called for reforms in the way the agency does its business. The calls came on the heels of a government report which found that the agency broke a substantial number of its own rules in conducting the domestic surveillance, a violation of its founding mandate.

“Press reports that the National Security Agency broke privacy rules thousands of times per year and reportedly sought to shield required disclosure of privacy violations are extremely disturbing,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said, according to The Washington Post.

Secret orders, secret spying

The Obama Administration, which inherited the surveillance program from the Bush Administration, went on to defend it, however, insisting that no laws were broken. Others who also defended the program claimed that the government derived its authority from the USA Patriot Act, and from a secret order President Bush signed in 2002, which authorized the intelligence community to spy on U.S. callers without a warrant.

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