Two. The Government created and maintains secret backdoor access into all databases in order to search for information on US citizens
Three. The Government operates a vast database which allows it to sift through millions of records on the internet to show nearly everything a person does
Four. The Government has a special court which meets in secret to authorize access for the FBI and other investigators to millions and millions of US phone, text, email and business records
Five. The Government keeps Top Secret nearly all the decisions of the FISA court
Six. The Government is fighting to keep Top Secret a key 2011 decision of the FISA court even after the court itself said it can be made public
Seven. The Government uses secret National Security Letters (NSL) issued by the FBI to seize tens of thousands of records
Eight. The National Security Head was caught not telling the truth to Congress about the surveillance of millions of US citizens
Nine. The Government falsely assured the US public in writing that privacy protections are significantly stronger than they actually are and Senators who knew better were not allowed to disclose the truth
Ten. The chief defender of spying in the House of Representatives, the Chair of the oversight intelligence subcommittee, did not tell the truth or maybe worse did not know the truth about surveillance
Eleven. The House intelligence oversight committee repeatedly refused to provide basic surveillance information to elected members of the House of Representatives, Republican and Democrat
Twelve. The paranoia about secrecy of surveillance is so bad in the House of Representatives that an elected member of Congress was threatened for passing around copies of the Snowden disclosures which had been already printed in newspapers worldwide
Thirteen. The Senate oversight committee refused to allow a dissenting Senator to publicly discuss his objections to surveillance
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