[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17308]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 ARE THE PEOPLE THE ENEMY OF THE STATE?

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, from Bubba in southeast Texas to the 
Pope, no one is off limits to the surveillance of the National Spy 
Agency, NSA. Americans are fighting the Soviet-style surveillance by 
filing thousands of open records requests on the NSA. Citizens want to 
know if the ``snoop and spy'' agency has monitored their emails, 
phones, computers, and location devices. Rather than transparency, the 
citizens have received just a form letter with no answer to their 
questions, all because it is a spy secret.
  Citizen Joel writes, ``I should have the right to know if I am under 
surveillance.''
  Courts should put a stop to the NSA Soviet-style surveillance and 
grant injunctions and open records requests.
  The NSA is addicted to spying and snooping. It has no authority under 
the PATRIOT Act nor the Constitution to impose domestic dragnet 
surveillance on citizens. This is a clear violation of the Fourth 
Amendment.
  NSA acts like the people are the enemy of the state. However, this 
NSA activity is the enemy of personal privacy in the United States.
  And that's just the way it is.

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