And why is the Military monitoring the
communications of Americans on U.S. soil and working with domestic law
enforcement?

Well, one day President Truman issued a secret order creating the NSA.

As testified by Library of Congress members on C-SPAN, the names of these
presidential findings change with administrations. They are called variously
Presidential Decision Directives, National Security Council Decision
Directives, Executive Orders, etc.

One might think these special override-the-constitution presidential
directives (which came out of nowhere) would be used for short-term
emergencies.

Wrong: the NSA is now a HUGE intelligence organization, eating billions
and billions and billions and billions of dollars in budgets each year,
and monitoring billions of messages a day.

*   "Spying Budget Is Made Public By Mistake", By Tim Weiner
*   The New York Times, November 5 1994
*  
*   By mistake, a Congressional subcommittee has published an unusually
*   detailed breakdown of the highly classified "black budget" for United
*   States intelligence agencies.
*  
*   In previously defeating a bill that would have made this information
*   public, the White House, CIA and Pentagon argued that revealing the
*   secret budget would cause GRAVE DAMAGE to the NATIONAL SECURITY of
*   the United States.
*  
*      $3.1  billion for the CIA
*      $10.4 billion for the Army, Navy, Air Force
*            and Marines special-operations units
*      $13.2 billion for the NSA/NRO/DIA
*  
*   The only damage done so far is to the
*   credibility of those who opposed the measure.

There is no constitutional basis for this
massive loss of Fourth Amendment rights.

It sounds like some wild conspiracy theory, doesn't it?

Yet i

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