{"id":5787,"date":"2013-12-22T11:27:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T19:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/?p=5787"},"modified":"2014-03-31T21:13:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T04:13:35","slug":"nsa-spying-predictions-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/nsa-spying-predictions-for-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA Spying Predictions for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_5357\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/obama-share-everything.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5357\" src=\"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/obama-share-everything-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"Obama Share Everything Plan\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/obama-share-everything-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/obama-share-everything-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/obama-share-everything.jpg 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obama Share Everything Plan<\/p><\/div><strong><strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>US<\/strong> <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>President Obama<\/strong> falsely claimed &#8212; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe way in which [the Snowden] disclosures happened has been damaging to the <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>United States<\/strong> and damaging to our intelligence capabilities&#8230;\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, exactly how arresting a Bank robber is damaging to his freedom to steal and damaging to his false reputation for honesty.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The NSA&#8217;s reckless \u201cfreedom to steal\u201d our personal information and the <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>US<\/strong> reputation as trustworthy are severely damaged only <i>because<\/i> it has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/28\/opinion\/the-criminal-nsa.html?_r=0\">conducted, and continues to conduct, massively criminal Privacy violations<\/a> upon innocent Americans and to innocent foreigners in other countries. <\/p>\n<p>But there is no evidence of any damage to American spying beyond that. There is no evidence that any terrorist activities are affected in any way &#8211; good or bad. The only damage from the disclosures so far was exposing world class embarrassing official <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>US<\/strong> criminal actions and anti-constitutional acts by <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>US<\/strong> government agencies; primarily the NSA, and until recently wholly supported by <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>President Obama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Now that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/17\/us\/politics\/federal-judge-rules-against-nsa-phone-data-program.html?pagewanted=2&#038;_r=0  \">Federal Judge has ruled NSA\u2019s mass surveillance data collection is unconstitutional (&#8220;&#8216;indiscriminate\u2019 and \u2018arbitrary\u2019 invasion of privacy&#8221;)<\/a> , I predict that Snowden will beat Mandela for Time\u2019s 2013 Person of the Year; and that these things will be revealed in 2014 \u2013<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>NSA<\/strong> spied upon and continues to spy on Senators, Congressmen and Congresswomen.<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>NSA<\/strong> spied upon and continues to spy on <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>Federal Court Judges<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spying on Congress or Judges can allow different degrees of criminal \u201cpersuasion\u201d (read Blackmail and Extortion) of Federal officials forcing them to unwillingly protect the &#8220;Indited States&#8217; &#8221; NSA, a vastly more powerful version of the dreaded &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/dec\/17\/merkel-compares-nsa-stasi-obama\">Stasi<\/a>&#8221; of Germany.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>3. Google, Yahoo, Facebook and others gave away some unconstitutional access to the <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>NSA<\/strong> for cash\u2013 just like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/dec\/20\/nsa-internet-security-rsa-secret-10m-encryption  \">NSA gave RSA a $10 million contract to reveal encryption secrets so that they can &#8220;backdoor&#8221; decrypt all your communications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>4. <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>NSA<\/strong> \/ CIA has been &#8220;adjusting&#8221; bank accounts by removing money.<\/p>\n<p>5. <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>NSA<\/strong> critics will sadly continue to confuse the very different terms &#8220;illegal&#8221; and unconstitutional.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No need to fasten your seatbelts &#8211; just be extremely careful what you email or say on the phone.<\/p>\n<p>Never again should you write or say on the phone &#8220;I&#8217;m going to blow up my friend&#8217;s photograph&#8221; &#8211; even in jest, because police never think it is as funny as you do.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Surveilled Seasons \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nGood article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/how-to-encrypt-emails-protect-yourself-from-online-spying-a-930665.html\">How to Encrypt Emails: Protect Yourself from Online Snoops<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PS Try this funny video &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8pcWlyUu8U4\">The NSA is Coming to Town<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>Update Dec<\/strong> 23: Whoops: I should have checked Time&#8217;s website, since they chose the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/poy.time.com\/2013\/12\/11\/person-of-the-year-pope-francis-the-peoples-pope\/\">Person of the Year<\/a>&#8221; about 2 weeks before I published this article. They chose the new <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>Pope Francis<\/strong> who is a champion of the poor. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/poy.time.com\/2013\/12\/11\/person-of-the-year-pope-francis-the-peoples-pope\/3\/\">Francis has made society\u2019s most vulnerable\u2014the sick, the elderly, immigrants and children\u2014the focus of his ministry.<\/a>&#8221; While I am not catholic as far as I know, I can applaud this choice. When was the last time you heard a candidate for <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>American President<\/strong> even mention the poor? <\/p>\n<p>I am pleased to report that <a href=\"http:\/\/time100.time.com\/2013\/10\/15\/person-of-the-moment\/slide\/edward-snowden-requests-asylum-in-brazil\/\">Time chose Edward Snowden as Person of the Moment only a week before I wrote this article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Obama falsely claimed &#8212; \u201cThe way in which [the Snowden] disclosures happened has been damaging to the United States and damaging to our intelligence capabilities&#8230;\u201d Yes, exactly how arresting a Bank robber is damaging to his freedom to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/nsa-spying-predictions-for-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5787"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6158,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions\/6158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}