Comments on: 100% Surveillance of Congress

By: Mesa Econoguy

Mesa Econoguy — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:02:01 +0000

Unfortunately, in the world of the future, Congress is likely to be the only group exempted from monitoring.

The beauty of the free market says everyone has a price, even in the future.

Iâ€™ve got $2000 for anyone with Nancy Pelosiâ€™s cell phone number. The American Spectator would probably pay 500x this.

Think of it as TMZ for politicians….

By: Dr. T

Dr. T — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:44:42 +0000

“…including the agencyâ€™s attempt to wiretap a member of Congress, without court approval, on an overseas trip…”

Wasn’t there already a court ruling that no warrants are needed to tap the phone conversations of US travelers to another country? I’m traveling to Germany soon, and my understanding is that the NSA can monitor any of my calls while I’m overseas. The NSA doesn’t need a warrant. It doesn’t even need a reason. So, why would it matter that the subject is a Congressman?

If the Congressman doesn’t like it, perhaps he will sponsor a bill to reduce the overly pervasive snooping powers of the NSA.

By: ici chacal

ici chacal — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:52:57 +0000

for any in congress who might whine about being NSA’d, we can always respond with the same BS line they give *US* whenever they pass yet another privacy-killing, intrusive law. “we’re only doing this to catch the **bad people**!! if you’re not doing anything illegal, you shouldn’t mind us checking up on you, right?”

and, since i’m wishing for stuff that’ll never happen, i’d also like to turn myself invisible and have the powers of superman, only i won’t wear a cape. capes are SO last year.

By: DrTorch

DrTorch — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:51:31 +0000

Yeah, I don’t understand this at all. Somehow if you’re an elected official, you don’t get scrutinized? Shouldn’t you be under MORE scrutiny? Don’t like it? Don’t run for office.