Obama's NSA Speech: You Have No Privacy in Your Data

President Obama delivered a wordy and categorical defense of NSA warrantless snooping on Americans' data privacy January 17 in a speech at the Justice Department, reiterating the longtime executive branch view that Americans have no reasonable expectation of privacy in any electronic transaction.

Though the NSA (and DEA) vacuums up every piece of Americans' data ”” telephone records, Internet traffic, GPS locating points, and other data ”” without a warrant as required by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Obama claimed that "the men and women of the intelligence community, including the NSA, consistently follow protocols designed to protect the privacy of ordinary people.” ...