Surveillance of the People for the People
The U.S. government is spying on your phone calls with the hushed assistance of companies like Verizon. While the National Security Agency (NSA) may not be listening to your actual conversations (yet), its agents are actively gathering data about your calls: who you call, from where you call, when you call, how long the call lasts. Here's the top secret court order delineating the government's unfettered powers of domestic surveillance. The price of freedom is becoming ever more expensive, and with broad clandestine activities like this underway -- with no specific target -- our precious freedoms continue to erode. Surely, this must delight our foes, who will gain relish from the self-inflicted curtailment of civil liberties -- the societal consequences are much more far-reaching than those from any improvised explosive…