Rubber Stamp Working Overtime as NSA Reviewed

The rubber stamps are hard at work in Washington DC as a newly established White House panel examining the legal ramifications of the NSA spying on US citizens says such efforts are "close to the line of constitutional reasonableness" but still lawful.

NSA spying continues to remain largely un-discussed

This comes as the real issue in NSA spying continues to remain largely un-discussed.  As the Guardian’s Trevor Timm notes, the mass collection of meta data is really a distraction issue.

The real issue is warrantless searches of US citizens on grounds that have nothing to do with terrorism,...