Phone conversations,e-mails,text messages, etc...?
Or even with surveillance cameras everywhere watching everything....I mean how can liberal and open minded people like Americans accept that?
2007-09-04 10:50:01 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Several questions, several answers.
The FBI gets authority to record based on a search order issued by a judge.
The CIA does not have the authority to spy on US citizens within the US.
Surveillance cameras in public areas and on privately owned property do not violate any reading of the constitution. A person should have no expectation of privacy while in a public place.
2007-09-04 10:56:29 · answer #1 · answered by davidmi711 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, they're doing it for free.
Actually, supposedly the FBI and CIA have to have a court order to do this surveillance. To get the court order, they have to show the court that they have reason to believe a person is breaking the law.
The security surveillance cameras are a different issue. Private firms can put them in there businesses. That's the law. Airports can have them (they're private firms). The ones on the streets are for security reasons (except for the ones set up to catch driving violations).
You're free to go to any business you want to.
2007-09-04 17:54:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They can't, not for domestic communications without a warrant.
International Communications, they can, do and should. But even that is monitered selectively, only on people who are suspected of terror connections.
We don't have security cameras all over the place. On Private Property, yes, but not Governmently controlled. In Government Buildings, yes, but those are closed circuit.
England has Security cameras all over, public prperty, streets, etc.
2007-09-04 17:58:08 · answer #3 · answered by Jon M 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I am no liberal I can tell you that!
The only ones getting recorded by them, are suspected terrorists. What do you have to worry about if you are innocent and the FBI happens to listen in on you? Which you'd never know, unless you committed a crime!
Besides, Carter and Clinton did the same kind of unwarranted tapings!
2007-09-04 18:05:54 · answer #4 · answered by Ninja Rabbit 007 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Because those in this administration have talked the US into giving up their freedom in exchange for the illusion of security. Simple enough. And sad enough.
Edit: To ritefielder14, It's truely horrifying to see that there are people who think like you. Your post sounds like something from an Orwell book.
2007-09-04 18:04:36 · answer #5 · answered by Fretless 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It is obvious that a lot of our Senators and Congressmen have not read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It is also obvious that so many people live in fear, that they are willing to give up certain liberties for the illusion of safety.
2007-09-04 17:59:40 · answer #6 · answered by John H 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
It's not like they are going to listen to every thing you say... It's for national security and they listen to your phone calls for a reason of suspicion or if you use keywords relating to terrorism or killing someone. They wont waste all there time just listening to your deep dark secrets like Clinton's dark fantasies.
2007-09-04 18:06:20 · answer #7 · answered by HKing 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
We pay them to keep us secure. If tapping our phones and setting up cameras keeps me more secure, so be it. I have nothing to hide.
2007-09-04 18:02:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonnnn24424 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Did you ever read George Orwell's book entitled "1984'? Please read it and get back to us. And to think it was sold in the Fiction section.
2007-09-04 18:08:49 · answer #9 · answered by Mezmarelda 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because we have an administration that thinks it is above the law, and a Congress too spineless to challenge it.
2007-09-04 17:58:30 · answer #10 · answered by jeffersonian73 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋