... the NSA found 20% of CIA applicants had mentioned "shoes," "underwear," or "pressure cooker" in a phone call or email.

I'm sure the U.S. is putting pressure on the Brits to gag Greenwald. This sounds like a typical NSA operation.

Not if they cooked-the-books the same way the Obama administration did here in USA. This quarter they included art, music, and poetry for the first time. I'm going to cook me up a big meal of contemporary sculpture for dinner.

According to your "so called" logic, I do "work" for NO PAY and I'm fine with that. Your definition of "work" is sipping Long Island Iced Tea by the pool. My definition of "work" is the creation of a useful or entertaining product. When I write a document for my company they pay me for the time it took to write. I don't get paid every time someone reads my instruction manual, test report, or RFQ. How is it that "artists" spend a month or two writing a book (recording a tune) and expect to get paid for the rest of their life? The actor and director, who got paid $10M for making the movie, expects to cash a huge check ever month for sitting on thier collective ass. Where does this expectation, YOUR expectation, come from? Well, "logically" the artist is unable to produce a viable product day-in and day-out like I do, so they must be paid for past product. It doesn't sound like these guys are being as productive as you and I are expected to be everyday. I'm not "starving or homeless" and I have a book for sale on Amazon that I wrote just for the fun of it.

And now you know the real reason for this bullshit. Censorship was never to protect the children. Children don't give money to politicians, corporations do. It's always been about perceived copyright violation by "Big Media." All hail our bought and paid-for ruling class. Follow the money.

Whoops. Caught in another lie. If we don't have a domestic spying program what do these Sysadmins have access to? Logically there must be some secret information Keith does not want the American people to find out.

Anyone have a good meta data analysis program?

Obama just told Jay Leno the NSA doesn't do domestic spying so how does Hayden know the intimate details of our sex lives? How?

He forgot to say, Citizens, Voters, Taxpayers, and My Boss.

There's only one way to get our privacy back (and it's a long shot). Use what Constitutional power we have to change the law. Proposed 28th Amendment: No person, group, or agency, public or private, foreign or domestic, may collect, record, transmit, or disclose any private information beyond that defined in the United States Census about any individual without express written permission of the individual or court order specific to an active criminal investigation. Private information includes, but is not limited to, location, financial transactions, medical records, school records, arrest records, associates, and associations. Candidates for elected positions must submit seven years past income tax records at least ninety (90) days before elections.

Well there's your problem. There are NEVER enough laws. When all the good laws have been passed do the politicians stop making laws. Nope. They just continue making bad laws.

Maybe it's high time we made privacy a Constitutional right. My proposed 28th Amendment: No person, group, or agency, public or private, foreign or domestic, may collect, record, transmit, or disclose any private information beyond that defined by United States Census law, regarding any individual without express written permission of the individual or a court order specific to an active criminal investigation. Private information includes, but is not limited to, location, financial transactions, medical records, school records, arrest records, associates, and associations. Candidates for elected positions must submit seven years past income tax records at least ninety (90) days before elections.

I voted for Obama in 2008 but by 2011 it was clear to me he had no intention of improving the social or economic order of anyone, black, white, brown, poor or middle class. Apparently keeping a large percentage of young black males locked in prison is required for economic prosperity. Only the rich received special consideration from the White House. Everyone else got the same tired old campaign speech he gave again this week.

I don't think Internet Censors are cowards but they are lazy, self centered, self-righteous, morons. There is a simple solution that protects children from the Internet Boogieman but it requires actual time and effort to implement. Make a separate kid friendly Internet with Barney, Disney, and toy advertisements. Parents would connect their kids computers to the safe network knowing everything there has been vetted by an old woman with a stick up her ass. This solves every rational complaint about the adult Internet except, "What we really want is to control what other adults see and think."

Stupid reporter didn't ask the most important question, "When do you plan to roll out your drones?" Police are using drones now. Speed enforcement is only a budget cycle away.