Verizon Scandal: NSA's PRISM Tapping Internet Data

Just what we need, a new scandal.

NSA and FBI have been collecting metadata on ALL Verizon phone users for several months, and maybe years.  But they are also collecting your communications from "Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.”

See here:  Washington Post: Investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program

See here:  Washington Post: World/national-security/verizon-providing-all-call-records-to-us-under-court-order 

See here:   Blaze: bombshell-report-govt-also-tapping-servers-of-top-internet-companies-to-collect-americans-emails-photos-messages/

And President Obama can't say he didn't know:  "An internal presentation of 41 briefing slides on PRISM, dated April 2013 and intended for senior analysts in the NSA’s Signals Intelligence Directorate, described the new tool as the most prolific contributor to the President’s Daily Brief, which cited PRISM data in 1,477 articles last year."According to the slides and other supporting materials obtained by The Post, “NSA reporting increasingly relies on PRISM” as its leading source of raw material, accounting for nearly 1 in 7 intelligence reports."

"That is a remarkable figure in an agency that measures annual intake in the trillions of communications. It is all the more striking because the NSA, whose lawful mission is foreign intelligence, is reaching deep inside the machinery of American companies that host hundreds of millions of American-held accounts on American soil."

"Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities, is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide PowerPoint slides about PRISM and supporting materials to The Washington Post in order to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. “They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” the officer said."

The Constitution seems to mean nothing to this government.  When the common sense of ordinary people says that the government is over-reaching, then it is over-reaching.  It is obvious to me that the government can't see the Constitutional forest for the eaves-dropping trees.