blog/data/2017-03-08-wiretapping-presidents.txt

   1 Title: How does it feel to be wiretapped, when you should be doing the wiretapping...
   2 Tags: english, surveillance
   3 Date: 2017-03-08 11:50
   4
   5 <p>So the new president in the United States of America claim to be
   6 surprised to discover that he was wiretapped during the election
   7 before he was elected president.  He even claim this must be illegal.
   8 Well, doh, if it is one thing the confirmations from Snowden
   9 documented, it is that the entire population in USA is wiretapped, one
  10 way or another.  Of course the president candidates were wiretapped,
  11 alongside the senators, judges and the rest of the people in USA.</p>
  12
  13 <p>Next, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ask the Department of
  14 Justice to go public rejecting the claims that Donald Trump was
  15 wiretapped illegally.  I fail to see the relevance, given that I am
  16 sure the surveillance industry in USA believe they have all the legal
  17 backing they need to conduct mass surveillance on the entire
  18 world.</p>
  19
  20 <p>There is even the director of the FBI stating that he never saw an
  21 order requesting wiretapping of Donald Trump.  That is not very
  22 surprising, given how the FISA court work, with all its activity being
  23 secret.  Perhaps he only heard about it?</p>
  24
  25 <p>What I find most sad in this story is how Norwegian journalists
  26 present it.  In a news reports the other day in the radio from the
  27 Norwegian National broadcasting Company (NRK), I heard the journalist
  28 claim that 'the FBI denies any wiretapping', while the reality is that
  29 'the FBI denies any illegal wiretapping'.  There is a fundamental and
  30 important difference, and it make me sad that the journalists are
  31 unable to grasp it.</p>
  32
  33 <p><strong>Update 2017-03-13:</strong> Look like
  34 <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/13/rand-paul-is-right-nsa-routinely-monitors-americans-communications-without-warrants/">The
  35 Intercept report that US Senator Rand Paul confirm what I state above</a>.</p>