Artist: J-Toth From Hoth
Album:  Conspiracy Theory
Song:   Live @ the NSA (inside the honeycomb)
Typed by: @JonathanToth

"NSA and intelligence community in general is focused on getting
intelligence wherever it can by any means possible. It believes, on
the grounds of sort of a self-certification, that they serve the national
interest. Originally we saw that focus very narrowly tailored as foreign
intelligence gathered overseas. Now increasingly we see that it's happening
domestically and to do that the NSA specifically, targets the communications
of everyone. It collects them in its system and it filters them and it
analyses them and it measures them and it stores them for periods of time
simply because that's the easiest, most efficient, and most valuable way. So
while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign
government or someone they suspect of terrorism, they're collecting you're
communications to do so. I sitting at my desk certainly had the authorities
to wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a Federal judge
to even the President."

"President Obama has promised to run the most transparent administration
in history. Some forms of phone surveillance have increased more than 60%, and
some forms of internet and email surveillance have spiked more than 300%
during this administration."

"You see the problem is, if they have opinions about something that's
unacceptable, they then become a target without even believing they are. All
the data's being assembled to retroactively examine their entire lives. It's
not a question of them thinking they're safe because they don't believe
they're doing anything wrong. It's not the people's
perception, it's the administration's."

"So this is one President Obama's little secrets... "

"I don't think he understands what they're saying. I think they're using
techno-babble to convince him of their argument is the correct way, like
if we can't do all this spying, we won't be able to find the bad guys
and the country will be vulnerable, which is absolutely FALSE. We could've
protected all the identities of all US citizens or anyone in the world
for that matter and still gotten the bad guys."