NSA Wiretapping

Somewhere in the avalanche of distractions in my mind is the recollection that Congress explicitly defunded TIA so the Bush Administration did a run around on it.

So, if Congress defunded the data mining, who is paying for it?

While I was there, I noticed that Shakespeares Sister posted Mission Creepy about

“Chief Privacy Officer” (WTF?) of Claria (nee Gator) being appointed to a four-year term on the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee.

How can this be anything but unconstitutional?

back up links in case we end up like correntewire here and here.

farmer has more on the recent telecom info dump.