The definition of "terrorism" and "terrorist" shall soon be bent to include anti-govt speech, thus loss of our 1st amendment.

"About the NCA: The NCA is a new crime-fighting agency with national and international reach".
Balls or ego?

until it can monitor EVERYTHING. The end result of that will be CONTROL. Smart TVs? Built in cameras. How long until they start REQUIRING being monitored?

Too "busy". Actual content size reduced, like Facebook. Just no.

Microsoft is. NSAbox1. No start menu. Technet dead. And now this. This is just so sad it is funny.

Hell, put this in the summary or make a separate article of it. Spread the word. Submit to every news outlet.

I'm going.

and kick him in the nuts. I'm sorry, but it's starting to look more and more like violence will be the answer.

Where did anyone say they believe other countries don't spy? Got a quote? No? FUCK OFF HIPPIE. Your ilk are the reason we're in this mess.

What kind of balls does it take to stand up in front of everyone and say they want to treat every citizen as a suspect? The real surprise will be when nobody reports this and there are no consequences.
There's a civil respose: Create a new political party by and for regular people. Vote these shitheads out of office.
Uncivil response: I'll let you guess.
What is it going to take? Stop paying taxes and send a note to our govt. saying we will no longer fund this crap? Put a F U in the "amount paid" box on our 1040?
And then there's those two fucking bitches who objected to further questioning and shut it down. Let's sit outside their house with directional microphones and stream it live to a website called Senators Gone Live! When they complain about their privacy, we get to slap them as hard as we fucking can.

there wasn't one major headline about this from a major US news source. Instead it was all about Iran. Our news media sucks.

than someone who isn't paying attention, lets traffic ahead of them pull off, and when they realize it's time to go, the light has changed to yellow. They proceed to run it leaving everyone else to sit at the red light. Those people need a phone enema.

Make sure we are able to hide any infringements on civil liberties.

This isn't them "doing their job". It's an extension of "anything you say can and will be used against you" to include all data. The giant information grab is going to start being used against innocent citizens. Remember, Googling certain items results in a visit from the FBI.