Thread: BREAKING: DOZENS OF SENATORS WORRY THE NSA MAY BE COLLECTING OUR GUN DATA, TOO

BREAKING: DOZENS OF SENATORS WORRY THE NSA MAY BE COLLECTING OUR GUN DATA, TOO
By Norvell Rose
Published: June 29, 2013 | 1 Comment
What?! The National Security Agency (NSA) may also be harvesting data that could be used to construct a national gun registry?
We already know that the government snoops – claiming they’re acting ethically to protect us from terror attack – are collecting and storing data on our phone calls, emails, texts, etc. Now, could it be possible that NSA surveillance also gathers info that they could use to find out who owns what kinds of firearms?
In a letter just sent to James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, a bipartisan group of 26 Senators, led by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), is asking Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to detail the scope and limits of the NSA’s surveillance activities.
One very disturbing excerpt from the letter, referencing the NSA’s secret surveillance, reads:

It can be used to collect information on credit card purchases, pharmacy records, library records, firearm sales records, financial information, and a range of other sensitive subjects…. The bulk collection authority could potentially be used to supersede bans on maintaining gun owner databases, or laws protecting the privacy of medical records, financial records, and records of book and movie purchases.

Second Amendment rights groups and Republican members of Congress have long warned against the creation of a national gun registry. Fears of such a registry bogged down several attempts to forge a bipartisan gun-control bill in the Senate earlier this year.
No word yet on whether Clapper – who has serious credibility issues because of past Congressional testimony – will answer the questions and concerns from the 26 Senators.


http://www.libertynews.com/2013/06/b...-gun-data-too/

Senators Question NSA About Collecting Gun Data

Posted on 30 June, 2013 by Amy

Senators are questioning whether the National Security Agency collected bulk data on more than just Americans’ phone records, such as firearm and book purchases, A bipartisan group of 26 senators, led by Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) asked Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to detail the scope and limits of the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities in a letter released Friday.
“We are concerned that by depending on secret interpretations of the PATRIOT Act that differed from an intuitive reading of the statute, this program essentially relied for years on a secret body of law,” the senators wrote in the letter.
The NSA’s surveillance program has come under intense scrutiny following a leak revealing the agency harvested the phone metadata of millions of American citizens. The senators noted that the federal government’s authority under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act is broad and rife with potential for abuse. Among the senators’ concerns was whether the NSA’s bulk data harvesting program could be used to construct a gun registry or violate other privacy laws.
“It can be used to collect information on credit card purchases, pharmacy records, library records, firearm sales records, financial information, and a range of other sensitive subjects,” the senators wrote. “And the bulk collection authority could potentially be used to supersede bans on maintaining gun owner databases, or laws protecting the privacy of medical records, financial records, and records of book and movie purchases.”
The senators asked Clapper in the letter whether the NSA used PATRIOT Act authorities to conduct bulk collection of other types of records, and whether there are any instances of the agency violating a court order in the process of such collections. Read more at http://freebeacon.com/senators-ask-i...cted-gun-data/
http://gopthedailydose.com/2013/06/3...ting-gun-data/