September 29, 2013

NSA Monitoring US Citizens' Social Media Information

All of that personal information you have been posting on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. was not just interesting to your friends, family, and business associates. The National Security Agency finds that personal information interesting as well.

The NSA has been tracking and storing your personal and business relationships, travel history, GPS locations, and probably everything else you have been posting on your social media accounts. If your friends know every detail of your life, so does the NSA. So, if that weird friend you have from high school has been loosely associated with some sort of a criminal or terrorist organization, you are probably in some database right now as a possible associate. Do you know every single thing all of your social media contacts are doing? The NSA does.

Read all about it in the New York Times article by James Risen and Laura Poitras.

"NSA Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens"

September 13, 2013

TSA Officer Arrested for Aiding Illegal Aliens

TSA officer, David Alexander Díaz-Torres has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Orlando on suspicion he aided in the smuggling of illegal aliens from Brazil by allowing them to pass through TSA security.

So here we have a federal employee who has been given extensive powers to do extremely intrusive things such as fondle your children, force your grandmother out of her wheelchair, strip search your spouse, and grab your genitals just because he claims it is for your own safety. He is supposed to be protecting America's borders, but he is allegedly abusing his power to help sneak illegal aliens through security.

What if one of these illegal aliens was a terrorist? Can you imagine how sickening it would be to find out Americans were killed by someone who was sneaked into the country by the very people who have been granted tremendously broad powers to protect us?

Click here to read the press release.