Obama administration to the Bush administration on its line

Obama administration to the Bush administration on its line

Writer / jocp

Thursday, June 18, 2013

Despite promises that rant by President Barack Obama since he first term in 2008 and phrases refined used such as a change and transparency, but the scandals successive revealed recently, most notably a spy by the U.S. authorities on the media and American civilians to prove, according to the American writer Laura Finley that the U.S. administration "continues to walk on the same serious approach followed by its counterpart in the era of former President George W. Bush ". In an article reported on Counter Punch the U.S. under the title of "the month is bad for privacy rights," noted Finley to the violations committed by the U.S. administration and the scandals of the many recently unveiled the first of tapping scandal on the media and news agencies agency Associated Press, where the U.S. Department of Justice spying on journalists working with the agency and on their personal and confidential e-mails, . Said Finley, "The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided to allow the collection of DNA samples from" de NA "for people who have been detained or have been arrested without proving any charge against them or convicted of any crime, saying that it is not contrary to and does not constitute a violation of the U.S. Constitution, which prevents it ". She explained Finley that "This move raises many questions and whether the person detained by police is guilty or innocent, or his charge of serious or simple the nuclear swollen will go to the database" wide, including e-mails and text messages and Internet activities as well as financial information and criminal records and medical . Said Finley Such practices "given broad powers to police the U.S., a type scary power in the hands of people who do not use them in a fair always as that DNA evidence will depend on the people who collect, analyze and use these samples pays Americans to put their trust in the technology at the expense of civil liberties ". She Finley that the scandals that recently revealed does not stop when it has recently emerged that the FBI FBI has the authority to collect information from the calls that take place within the United States, as well as taking place with other countries and there is a court order issued last April for Intelligence Surveillance Court Foreign calling Verizon one of the leading telecommunications companies in the United States to provide certain information about all the phone calls, including numbers and the time and location . Finley pointed out that the British newspaper The Guardian recently revealed that the National Security Agency, the U.S. can access the system directly to websites like Google and Facebook and Apple to know the content of e-mails and files and monitor conversations and chats that take place on the sites of social contact . Finley said that these types of surveillance lining does not constitute a violation of privacy, but it is only effective for what also leads the U.S. government "to protect the security of the United States and avert the threat of terrorist attacks ". It was leaked to the media revealed the campaign last week U.S. government of internal control exceeded any other exercise, formerly known as Obama acknowledged yesterday the fact that the U.S. intelligence community to collect information secretly justification for its citizens that espionage includes only contacts made ​​by foreigners on the Internet and that has been approved by Congress . Raised by recent scandals revealed practices of the U.S. administration and violated the constitutional rights of Americans, a wave of criticism and wide Some stressed that they represent the latest attack on basic democratic rights in the United States .