Can the NSA collect all our emails and phone conversations without warrants or oversight?

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 Security Authorities have such as the National Security Agency (NSA), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) or the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) made it to the task, the United States to protect against terrorist attacks.
In order to guarantee this protection, must be a monitoring of all US-citizens, with data to be collected, which can also for other purposes or can be abused – of course everything in the name of national security.th – what he would do?
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The former New York governor Eliot Spitzer made the
Überwachungsskandal known in his television program.
Photo: HarvardEthics / flickr (CC BY 2.0 )

Two former high-ranking NSA-officials, Thomas Drake and Kirk Wiebe, covered the maladministration in the television program “Viewpoint” of the former New York governor Eliot Spitzer.
If the jack of the Pandora’s box was opened once, depicts Drake, had respectable people to an incredible amounts of data access and could lift this for future purposes. Danger Danger from this date.
Drake also warned that the government itself give too much power, so that any future US-citizens could be involved in penalties, without ever having something to do with terrorism to have had.

Social networks facilitate monitoring

the news site also reports on Russia today similar statements by William Binney, the former Technical Director of the NSA, which is now a so-called Whistleblower is drawing attention to itself.
Binney explained to the journalists Geoff Shively, that of the US-government collecting sensitive data through social networks would be facilitated. In addition, the security authorities in the year 2011 1.3 million telephone calls of US-citizens have listened.

Clear violation of fundamental rights is minimized

since the publication of the contribution by Russia today tried several, probably state-driven mainstream media, to trivialise these blatant violations, although apparently also against the American Constitution has been violated, reported the Kopp-Verlag .
The Verharmloser of total surveillance to a big word that Benjamin Franklin recalls, of the to the Fathers of the American independence was: “who surrender freedom in order to gain security, will end up losing both.”

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