# NSA Surveillance Pro or Against? **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [July 9, 2013, 6:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nsa-surveillance-pro-or-against/267371 "2013-07-09T06:59:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nsa-surveillance-pro-or-against/267371/14 "2013-07-09T17:41:51Z")
> [@Poll: Which NYSPEED Mod is the biggest FGGT?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/poll-which-nyspeed-mod-is-the-biggest-fggt/53108/64): > > anybody that is for or doesn’t care about nsa surveillance is a fucking moron that also doesn’t know or care about this country. please no longer consider yourself a patriot but consider yourself a fucking retard. > > and i’m done with that. > On the eavesdropping issue, he said “absolutely” he has the legal authority to order such surveillance, citing Article 2 of the Constitution, which he said gives him the responsibility and authority to deal with an enemy who declares war against the United States. After the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Congress also gave him the authority to use force against Al Qaeda, he noted, to tackle an “unconventional enemy,” some of whom lived in U.S. communities. > Last I recall this was being defended as that if you were against Government trying to do everything in it’s power to monitor for terrorist activities, you were anti-american… > President secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nsa-surveillance-pro-or-against/267371)._