Although it's under their watch, don't think this one or the Verizon phone records monitoring are really the fault of the Obama administration. The Patriot Act is finally coming home to roost, as most civil liberties experts knew it would. You give a government agency an inch and it'll take a mile. The Patriot Act gave them a mile and we're only beginning to find out what they've taken.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/06/politics/nsa-intern … ?hpt=hp_t1
Skibear you may not care what FBI agents think of your conversations, however if snippets of those conversations were released, a future employer etc might.
I am not ashamed or embarrassed, however my personal intimate correspondence is just that or other wise I would do in public. Remember electronic correspondence is forever. Not like letters or papers that can be shredded or disposed of. One more thought, How many of you would be outraged to have the FBI come to your mailbox and rifle your mail? Leave the junk and go through your bills and correspondence to see what and where your are buying spending your money. And who is sending you what.
Just think if Michelle Bachman or Ted Cruz had this power. Or if Joe McCarthy had it.
I have nothing to hide, if they wanna listen, the FBI guys might get a raging hard-on, but nothing else. ;-D
If the gov't was really on the ball and followed up on all the warnings from the Russians, and perhaps listened in on the cell phone conversations between Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev weeks before the Boston Marathon bombings, there might not be dead and permanently crippled people as a result.
I think we're at a crossroads here. I'm all for civil liberties, but not to a foolish point that enables terrorists to kill and maim us!
By the way, the Patriot is such bullshit. Even then name wreaks of Orwellian doublespeak.
I guess they are ashamed of what they are,
Rest assured Version was the only company leaked, AT&T, TMobile, and all the rest were too.