We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, the U.S. government is quite restricted in what kind of surveillance they can do on U.S. citizens. The problem is that 96 percent of the planet is not U.S. citizens.
There's still a lot of things you can legitimately do to make America safe through electronic surveillance.
If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our human and civil rights.
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.
The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities in American history... The real problem is that they're using these capabilities to make us vulnerable.
I long ago lost track of the number of times the Obama administration has assured everyone that its vacuum-cleaner approach to electronic surveillance does not threaten the privacy or the rights of Americans.
Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%.
The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.
The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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