Glenn Beck
6/6/2013
“The alarming scale of domestic surveillance under this White House is shocking and it is inexcusable,” Glenn told his radio audience this morning. “Millions of Americans, according to the Guardian, not to some conspiracy theorist but now according to the Guardian.”
Last night, the latest in a string of White House scandals broke, and this time it effects all Americans. The Guardian released a full court document exposing that Verizon — one of the most widely carried cellular networks in the country — was forced to hand over the telephone data of millions of Americans to the NSA. The United States government is collecting the phone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order.
The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald reports, “The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.”
According to the report, the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved the court order to the FBI on April 25. The order gives the U.S. government complete authority to compile all the data they want over the designated three month period, ending on July 19. The order was signed by FISC Judge Roger Vinson, a federal judge in Florida. TheBlaze.com reports that in 2011 Vinson was also the first federal judge to find Obamacare unconstitutional in its entirety.
Just last month, a mainstream outlet mocked and ridiculed Glenn for his “conspiracy theory” that the federal government was gathering information on a mass scale, claiming he had no evidence.
“I thought to myself as I was reading it, ‘what in the hell do you think that they’re doing out in Utah? What do you think they’re building that gigantic storage facility for, from the NSA? What do you think they’re using that for?’” Glenn recalled.
They have more evidence than they need now.
“My gosh, what do you need that for?” Pat asked. ”They defended this today by saying that this, such information, the telephone records of U.S. citizens is a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats. How is gathering the phone calls of normal American citizens not suspected of terror, how does that help protect the nation from terror strikes?”…
The article continues at GlennBeck.com
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Related: Ted Cruz responds to phone tapping scandal Read the full transcript at the link.
…”It is a very troubling pattern and it is one that I think every American, conservative or liberal, should be concerned when the federal government arrogates to itself so much power that it admits no limits under the Bill of Rights and Constitution.”…
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Also, WATCH: Glenn wins Freedom of Speech award at #TalkersNY2013
“There is no reason to protect Speech unless it’s offensive.”
Update 2: Yahoo News interview: Rand Paul says NSA phone records seizure saps Obama’s ‘moral authority’
…Speaking one day before President Barack Obama meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in California, Paul said the NSA program, the controversy around IRS treatment of conservative groups, and other recent government actions sap America’s “moral authority” to urge Beijing to embrace democratic reforms and openness…
” Today, Texas GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert cited a tweet from the quotable Ace of Spades.” Watch the video at Twitchy.
Update 3: Glenn frequently refers to a building in Utah. For those who haven’t yet learned what that is, here is an article from March 2012: The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) Wired.com
…In the process—and for the first time since Watergate and the other scandals of the Nixon administration—the NSA has turned its surveillance apparatus on the US and its citizens. It has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls, whether they originate within the country or overseas. It has created a supercomputer of almost unimaginable speed to look for patterns and unscramble codes. Finally, the agency has begun building a place to store all the trillions of words and thoughts and whispers captured in its electronic net. And, of course, it’s all being done in secret. To those on the inside, the old adage that NSA stands for Never Say Anything applies more than ever…
