Constitutional Amendment needed to protect privacy

As you  probably know by now, Obama basically passed the buck to Congress to try to take the NSA monster. It's too bad he values our privacy so little. It seems like just about every week we find out about some new super-duper spying technique they have developed.  This  excellent  article about James Madison, libertarianism, the Fourth Amendment, etc. argues that we need a constitutional amendment to limit government spying.  The Fourth Amendment and existing protections don't go far enough.  I second that motion.

Federal judge upholds NSA security program

In a decision contrary to one reached by another federal judge not long ago, this federal court upheld the NSA program that collect huge batches of telephone records.  Congress and/or the Supreme Court need to step and get this monster under control.

The NSA monster

On Monday,  D.C. federal District Judge Richard J. Leon stated that the NSA's treatment of phone records is "Orwellian" and inconsistent with the Fourth Amendment.  In spite of all the highly questionable things about  the NSA that have come to light, the President's promise to review the situation, the empty government reassurances, etc., etc., etc., the Obama administration continues to show its true, anti-civil liberties, colors by arguing that 2 current  spying/snooping cases against the government should be  stopped because they will damage national security. OUTRAGEOUS!  If there was any doubt, it is now clear that the Obama administration is creating a national security state.  It's time for the Supreme Court and Congress to step in and corral this monster.  Say what you will about Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden,  Wikileaks, Julian Assange etc., but without them how long would it have taken to discover the existence of this monster?

NSA cracks encyrption (digital scrambling) codes

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, it had been revealed that the British and American governments have cracked encryption codes that were thought to prevent government snooping. Supercomputers have enabled the NSA and British GCHQ to pull this off.  Documents leaked by former analysis Edward Snowden revealed this breakthrough.  It's becoming easy to become paranoid. Are our televisions watching us?