Big Brother Spying in America. Perilously Close to a “Totalitarian State”
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By Stephen Lendman
Global Research
US spy agencies trample on Bill of Rights protections. Their spying domestically and abroad is pervasive.
Anything goes is official policy, rule of law principles circumvented. Edward Snowden earlier said he hoped his revelations would make people worldwide aware of how their freedoms and protections are compromised.
Mass surveillance goes on in ways few people realize. Numerous techniques are used – metadata collected unrelated to national security without court authorized warrants.
Phone conversations are recorded, emails collected and stored. New WikiLeaks documents revealed that the CIA (and presumably the NSA, FBI and other US spy agencies) can circumvent encryption, turn television sets into listening devices, and monitor peo...