ARE WE POWERLESS AGAINST N.S.A.?

Back in December, an unnamed major telephone company won a District Court hearing which ruled that the wholesale and arbitrary collection of telephone records was unconstitutional.  In January, the company petitioned the FISC court to “vacate, modify or affirm the current production order” and to stop the collection order.  In March, the FISC ruled that the telecommunications company “provides no basis for vacating or modifying the production order.” It also defined the previous Circuit Court decision questioning the Constitutionality of the NSA’s actions “unpersuasive.” 

In other words, what N.S.A. wants, N.S.A. gets, the Constitution be damned. 

It is the responsibility of the American citizen to inform him or herself regarding what is going on with his or her government and to insist that Congress perform its duties as the watchdog oversight.  Failure to do so is nobody's blame but ours.