>>510242218 (OP)>"That previous administrations never used it themselves," ....HAAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA .....
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Can't tell if you're a liar or a fool. Uncle Sam has been sucking up every bit of electronic communication since Project Echelon. Images and sounds from your smart TV and phone have been recorded and stored on government servers almost from the day they became common place in consumer electronics. There is nothing the government loves more than sucking up information on people, tracking them, watching them, calculating what they will do or say. People in power crave more power like a junkie craves his next fix. There is no greater feeling of power than to have power over people, like the power of watching them like a god from above.
This is true for every level of government, every department, every section, especially law enforcement and intelligence. The parties and individual elected officials hardly matter in this respect at all. They all do it, constantly, since the day you were born.